Category: SCI Level: C5/6

Michael Stokes - C5/6 Incomplete Quadriplegic from Connecticut, USA, 8 Years Post-Injury

5/9/2022

“What’s more important than walking to me is just family… me and my family have become very close. I’m not the same person I was a year ago, and you don’t have to be the same person you were a year ago either. You can change, everyone can change. If I did it, you can too.”

Josh Sloan - C5/6 Complete Quadriplegic from Virginia, USA, 8 Years Post-Injury

1/20/2022

“Avoid staying in the house at all costs. Whatever you can do to not be in the house, do that, do it as fast as possible… Even if you don’t like sports, adaptive sports is such a good way to get more independent being around people with your same injury.”

*** Josh is a certified peer mentor with United Spinal. ***

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Michael Stokes - C5/6 Incomplete Quadriplegic from Connecticut, USA, 8 Years Post-Injury

Josh Sloan - C5/6 Complete Quadriplegic from Virginia, USA, 8 Years Post-Injury

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