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...When he got hurt, I asked one doctor the prognosis," says Reneé. "He said, 'Your son is going to be in a wheelchair forever.'" Instead, Chase is joining a growing number of people defying such grim predictions...
...best moment in Reneé Ford's life came the day her son Chase, then 2, tried to kick his doctor. It was July 2005, and that angry gesture marked the first time the boy had moved below the neck in more than a month...
These days when you look at Chase, you don't at first notice any sign of what happened to him that year--not the fall he took while jumping on the couch nor the paralyzing blow to the neck as he hit the wooden armrest. More and more, Chase can do the kinds of things any other 4-year-old can do. He can walk, albeit with the aid of trekking poles. He can hold a cup and pick up an M&M. He's regained at least some sensation...
...since moved to UCLA, got Reeve onto a treadmill and put him through some therapeutic paces. Two years later, Reeve's foundation launched its NeuroRecovery Network, sponsoring locomotor work at seven hospitals and therapy centers across the country, including the Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, Ky., where Chase undergoes therapy...
...first people who got a look at Chase when he arrived at Frazier was physiologist Susan Harkema. She rigged him into a baby-size treadmill harness and walked him for 30 minutes as he howled and protested. It was as she was taking him down that he delivered his surprising kick. Treadmill work alone did not get Chase moving. He receives traditional therapy to get his legs bearing as much weight as possible, to help him recognize sensory cues and to teach him such basics as how to swing his arms when he walks. And he has one more thing...