1) Natalie was 18 when sustaining a spinal cord injury
2) Her spinal cord injury was due to a golf club severing nerves and arteries in the neck
3) Over 15 million people are living with a spinal cord injury
4) The most common cause for SCI's are motor vehicle accidents
5) Severity of SCI's are determined by incomplete an complete.
"Incomplete: An incomplete SCI is like a closure that only affects some lanes. Others remain open, so some abilities below the injury remain intact.
Complete: A complete SCI affects all the lanes. No traffic gets through. It usually means permanent loss of all abilities below the injury, including paralysis."
"You're Not Alone with Townsend"
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Let's keep changing lives!
Townsend
references:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cwVtnMMLdsjSQc1a7evRi?si=4c540e9184be4ee6
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/spinal-cord-injury
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/spinal-cord-injury
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