PARALYSED Kristina Vogel is learning like a “baby” again as she deals with the painful process of intensive rehab. Track cycling’s greatest female star severed her spinal cord in …
the various exercises she undertakes to enhance mobility in her arms, which include lifting light balls and sticks, and taking up archery."Day by day, I'm still learning. In hospital, everything is reachable but now I have to go outside and to learn daily. It's hard."I'm trying to build my core but without having them . It's stupid, it's a weird thing, they are there but not really."To build up needs much more time than before.
"My situation could have been worse than it is. My first vertebra was also broken and it could have been I would have had no movement in my arms. For that, it's OK."
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