My legs gave way and I fell down the stairs. As I was lying on my back in a heap, I was struck by how ironic this was: I was a neuro-rehabilitation physiotherapist, and it would normally be me teaching people how to go up and down stairs safely. Yet here I was, helpless on the floor.’
Elisabeth Briggs, 48, a mother of three teenagers, from Newport, Shropshire, fights back tears as she recounts how her life changed after she