A single moment was all it took for our world to be seismically changed for ever. In 2008, my husband, Simon — a relentlessly, even irritatingly, healthy 38-year-old musician and part-time construction worker — fell backwards off an unsecured second-storey scaffold on to a stone floor, suffering catastrophic injuries to his brain and spinal cord.
Rushed to hospital by air ambulance, the head neurosurgeon later told us that when Simon had arrived in his operating room he was ‘half way
In a remarkable procedure, researchers in New York have restored lasting feeling and movement to a man living with quadriplegia.
Keith Thomas, 45, of Massapequa, was left paralysed and without sensation from the chest down after a driving accident injured his spine around his fourth and fifth vertebrae.
The first-of-its-kind clinical trial involved the implantation of microchips into Mr Thomas’ brain, which helped restore the link to his spinal cord via an
A woman, whose dog has been left partially paralysed after jumping out of the window of a moving car, has issued an urgent warning to fellow owners.
Hannah James, 48, and her partner Damon, 54, from Oldham, have been left devastated since their beloved dog, Ozzy, 4, launched himself out of the vehicle after allegedly opening the window with his paws.
Damon was doing the everyday run to pick Hannah up from work when their Shar Pei, Ozzy, jumped out
The average time for a property purchase from accepted offer to completion in the year to date is now 133 days. Bureaucracy, long-winded legal procedures, council red tape and a shortage of lawyers and conveyancers – many of whom are still working from home – are dragging the property market to a standstill, experts warn.
And people are losing thousands of pounds in surveys and solicitors fees as property-buying chains collapse as
