"After Seven Years In Wheelchair, Groom Walks Down The Aisle On His Wedding Day" - Kelly McCarthy
A determined groom, Chris Norton, took a huge stride last weekend when he walked down the aisle at his own wedding, despite a spinal chord injury that had left him in a wheelchair for the past seven years. The injury left him paralyzed from the neck down with just a three percent chance of ever walking again, according to his doctors. Arthur Jenkins III, MD, associate clinical professor of neurosurgery and orthopaedics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-director of the neurosurgery spine program at The Mount Sinai Hospital, said most neurological patients do not make the kind of progress Norton has made. "On the one hand, we are getting better, but we still have a long way to go even in the best-case scenario," he said. "We are still only getting one-third or one-fourth of patients to his level of function and you don’t get there without determination and work, with people who have the passion to get where he’s gotten."
- Arthur L. Jenkins III, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai