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An American footballer who suffered a spinal injury that left him paralysed from the neck down is walking again.

Adam Taliaferro suffered a devastating spinal cord injury on a football pitch ten years ago in front of 100,000 spectators.

Doctors gave Nittany Lions cornerback little chance of full recovery but as a result of determination and rehabilitation he is now able to walk again and is now a lawyer.

"Only a select few people really saw the MRI scan and the CAT scan and the X-ray and what the spinal cord looked like," Dr Wayne Sebastianelli, who treated Taliaferro, told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

"With the kind of clinical presentation he had and imaging findings that were there, I think it's truly a miracle."

The risk of serious spinal injury from contact sports such as American football or rugby were recently highlighted by the news that Scotland rugby union star Thom Evans has been forced to retire from the sport because of a spinal injury sustained in a Six Nations match against Wales.

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