Gymnast Jorge Valdés’ Miraculous Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
| 06/13/2012 - 11:41 |
By Teresa Rodriguez for Univision News
A spinal cord injury can have irreversible consequences, including the possibility of becoming a quadriplegic. That seemed to be the case for Jorge Valdés, a young gymnast who suffered a devastating fall that threatened to paralyze him.
But an experimental treatment administered by only a handful of hospitals — including the University of Miami hospital — gave Jorge a chance to bounce back to life.
Watch a video of Jorge and his family from Univision News.
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