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Girl with spinal cord injury returns to schoolRSS Feed
A girl who sustained a spinal injury while playing sport has returned to school after just five weeks of recovery.
Mackenzie Saunders now attends school in a wheelchair as a football accident on December 19th resulted in paralysis of her lower body, the Arizona Republic reports.
The 11 year old showed off to classmates by doing wheelies in her child-sized wheelchair.
Doctors believe that the youngster will learn to walk again and will eventually be able to run and, potentially, play football.
Abby Glen, an occupational therapist, told the newspaper that Ms Saunders used to only be able to get dressed if she was lying in bed.
"Now she can stand up and get dressed without even holding onto a walker. It took her three weeks to get to the point where she could stand without the walker and move dynamically," Ms Glen added.
Last week, biotherapeutics company Neuralstem Incorporated completed the first spinal cord stem cell treatment in the US, which, if proved to be effective, could potentially help in treating spinal cord injuries.
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