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[tayla123]

Hi everyone, my name is Tayla and I have only been a paraplegic since 23rd of October, I am 16 years old and my life has been competely changed. My injury level is T12 and I cant move or feel from hips down. I just wanted to know if anyone knew any helpful ways to get movement back?

[Parachute]

tayla123, on 03 February 2011 - 05:13 AM, said:

Hi everyone, my name is Tayla and I have only been a paraplegic since 23rd of October, I am 16 years old and my life has been competely changed. My injury level is T12 and I cant move or feel from hips down. I just wanted to know if anyone knew any helpful ways to get movement back?

Hi tayla123

You are asking a massive question here. Is you injury incomplete or complete? What type of spinal injury do you have, i.e compression, broken bone/s, tumour?


Parachute

[megatrig]

Parachute, on 03 February 2011 - 10:57 AM, said:

tayla123, on 03 February 2011 - 05:13 AM, said:

Hi everyone, my name is Tayla and I have only been a paraplegic since 23rd of October, I am 16 years old and my life has been competely changed. My injury level is T12 and I cant move or feel from hips down. I just wanted to know if anyone knew any helpful ways to get movement back?

Hi tayla123

You are asking a massive question here. Is you injury incomplete or complete? What type of spinal injury do you have, i.e compression, broken bone/s, tumour?


Parachute

Hi there,

Wow!! Indeeeeedy that is a massive question!

I think you should talk more with your Spinal Injuries team (do you have one?) as a question that big is really complicated and although we can all give some advice it might not be quite the vright advice. Hope that makes sense??

Good luck getting used to life in a wheelchair. Your "new way of life" as it were can and will be as rich and fulfilling as it was going to be before breaking your back.

Cheers,
David

[tayla123]

Parachute, on 03 February 2011 - 10:57 AM, said:

tayla123, on 03 February 2011 - 05:13 AM, said:

Hi everyone, my name is Tayla and I have only been a paraplegic since 23rd of October, I am 16 years old and my life has been competely changed. My injury level is T12 and I cant move or feel from hips down. I just wanted to know if anyone knew any helpful ways to get movement back?

Hi tayla123

You are asking a massive question here. Is you injury incomplete or complete? What type of spinal injury do you have, i.e compression, broken bone/s, tumour?


Parachute

Hi Parachute

I know haha, T12 incomplete no tumours or anything like that and just a compressed burst fracture.

megatrig, on 03 February 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

Parachute, on 03 February 2011 - 10:57 AM, said:

tayla123, on 03 February 2011 - 05:13 AM, said:

Hi everyone, my name is Tayla and I have only been a paraplegic since 23rd of October, I am 16 years old and my life has been competely changed. My injury level is T12 and I cant move or feel from hips down. I just wanted to know if anyone knew any helpful ways to get movement back?

Hi tayla123

You are asking a massive question here. Is you injury incomplete or complete? What type of spinal injury do you have, i.e compression, broken bone/s, tumour?


Parachute

Hi there,

Wow!! Indeeeeedy that is a massive question!

I think you should talk more with your Spinal Injuries team (do you have one?) as a question that big is really complicated and although we can all give some advice it might not be quite the vright advice. Hope that makes sense??

Good luck getting used to life in a wheelchair. Your "new way of life" as it were can and will be as rich and fulfilling as it was going to be before breaking your back.

Cheers,
David

Hi David
yess i know it is haha, yes it does just want to be able to walk again haha.
Yeah its hard getting usd to it thats all.

Cheers
Tayla

[guido]

Hi Tayla - this is one of those questions that get everyone on here totally opposed. And there's no right answer. It's a good thing to follow your dreams as long as they don't stop you living in the present and enjoying life.


I have spent many hours exercising and working on it and made a website to document progress: www.myscirecovery.com

The short answer is that there is no short cut way or no convention or known about "cure"


There are people who have tried all manner of things and had varying degrees of improvement.


Some are disappointed by what they haven't got and others are happy with where their own journey has led them, and what they have learnt along the way or the improvements that they have made. It's a deeply personal thing, that you have to work out for yourself, and that will take years. But that doesn't mean you should let anyone tear into your hope or beliefs.


Two good places to start, if you want to look stuff up are:

1. http://healingtherapies.info/ then click on "therapies"
2. http://www.sci-thera...ntroduction.htm


Best wishes


Guido