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A woman paralysed after sneezing can now walk again thanks to pioneering back surgery, which corrected her spinal injury.

Victoria Kenny, a solicitor from Chichester, was watching television when she sneezed and ruptured a disc in her spine.

This resulted in her sciatic nerve being trapped between two vertebrae.

The constant pain forced Ms Kenney to quit work and the 53-year-old said she often contemplated suicide as the spinal injury made her so depressed.

She underwent pioneering back surgery to fit a lightweight plastic cage to the affected area of her spine, which stops the disc from collapsing again and prevents the vertebrae from rubbing together.

According to the NHS, the sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body, it runs from the back of the pelvis all the way down both legs and ends in the feet.

Anything that compresses or irritates the sciatic nerve can cause a pain that radiates out from the lower back, and travels down the legs to the calves.

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