Paralyzed man walks again
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- You never know what life is going to throw at you. Sometimes it's best you don't know.
It was the day after Christmas 2008; Ed Thompson was enjoying his life.
"It was my first day of vacation", Ed said.
Ed decided to get some work done around the house.
"I noticed a gutter had fallen off the roof of my house", Ed said.
That's when life threw Ed his curveball. He got up on the roof to fix the gutter and started to slide back.
"I laid down to try to stop the fall, I just built up momentum", Ed said.
Ed hit the concrete below -- feet first.
"And all of that energy and all that shock went up my legs into my spine, before I fell over, I knew I was paralyzed", Ed said.
In that instant everything changed. The way doctors described it -- Ed suffered a burst fracture of the L1 vertebrae. It literally exploded.
"I could not move my legs at all. I had no movement at all from my hips down", Ed said.
Titanium hardware and bones put Ed back together. But no one knew with any certainty if he would ever walk again. Ed started physical therapy at CHI Health Immanuel Rehabilitation Center.
"I started therapy 10 days after the accident and I'm grateful for it because if I hadn't started as soon as I did - it wouldn't have laid the foundation for everything I've been able to do since", Ed said.
Therapy wasn't easy. Ed worked like he was training for a prize fight --and he didn't do it alone. A team of highly skilled physical therapists pushed him every step of the way.
"He was raring to go, he was super motivated on working on absolutely anything", Ed's physical therapist, Diana Palm, DPT, said.
And two weeks into therapy Ed landed a knockout. He realized he could move his legs side to side.
"That opened up a whole new range of therapies and different exercises we could try", Ed said.
Ed went from a wheel chair to braces to crutches. His injury left him paralyzed in spots but not powerless. Ed has full use of the front of his legs; the challenge was getting his hamstrings to work.
And so the journey began for Ed Thompson. He worked to the point of exhaustion to get back what the fall took away.
"It looks like something that shouldn't be all that difficult - what he's doing - but because of the weakness he has, he has to work that much harder to make it look slightly easy for him", said Diane Palm.
Ed knows he could have gone anywhere for physical therapy. He picked Immanuel Rehabilitation Center.
"These people know what they're doing they are dedicated and they're smart...they give it everything they've got", Ed said.
Ed is getting strength back he didn't have before, making a bigger difference in how he's moving.
He's driving, back at work, even dancing with his wife.
"I know I'm blessed by God", Ed said.
But this father of five has one more goal -- to one day walk his girls down the aisle without crutches. And God willing he will. You see the day Ed landed flat on his back he asked God for a little help. By all accounts 4 years and countless hours of physical therapy later that's exactly what he got.
"The prayer wasn't to fix me or save me, it was whatever you need me to do give me the strength to do it. Oddly enough, I've been given exactly the strength I've needed to do what I've done so far", Ed said.
The quality of care you receive after an injury or illness can determine your quality of life. At Immanuel Rehabilitation Center, they offer more than physical, occupational, and speech therapy. They restore hope - one patient at a time -- to people ready to get on with their life.
god bless everyone in this video and who ever is watching
dumb believer in fairy tales!
@@robertheinrichvonseyfenste267 Your Biblical illiterate. That's why you say those things.
@@brentlee380 Spiritually broke. We have to believe.
God bless you also hun x
Robert Heinrich von Seyfenstern I don’t believe in any god, but it’s a dick move to mock people who say god bless, you dickhead.
I hope you can run, jump, and climb.
Have a good recovery, mate.
I haven’t walk since April I don’t got force on my leg 😭
I cant move my hips to walk..my hips are paralalyzed Hoping and Praying and I congralute this video.This is.Greatness
The mind is very powerful! Believe in yourself and your religion :)
I’m praying for your recovery 🙏🏽
Stay strong brother 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
This is amazing to see. I had a very similar injury to Ed's. I fractured my L3, and endured the same kind of therapy, I can definitely empathize with him and his situation.
Ed has Ed😂
I was looking for a meme, and got this heart wrenching video
Just remember you have the ability to walk. Don’t waist it.
Waist 😐
this man is so lucky to recover so quickly
I'm hoping he heals completely
I'm starting my own journey hopefully tomorrow had back to back spinal surgery Friday 13 hours then Sunday 9 hours. God willing I shall walk again 🙏.
OMG... OMG... how amazing!
This is a blessing
You guys are blessed I am paralyzed but I didn’t have any help, from my family. If I tried for things like try to get help with physical therapy. I have insurance but just the indain health insurance. Which doesn’t pay for, much I’m here in a nursing home where they take my disability check to pay for things so I don’t have any spending money and anything to help with my children or help my wife. I tried to get different things in means of care alott of the time I wasn’t eligible or didn’t have any other help I’m a young man and believe that I could have gained some movement if I had that help in the beginning so I just lay here. Just taking up space and making people get rich off of me. I got my family which I wanna be with but all this bullshit is keeping me from them!
Master King damn man I hate that for you I’ll pray for you
Just try don't give up train everyday you are not losing anything if you try.
Damn bro I thought I was bad I haven’t walk in 3 months I fracture my leg and instead of going to a doctor I went to a clinic and they put everything there I went to the hospital yesterday there saying ima need surgery but one lady said I don’t juss need therapy omg and idk if u got force yet but hopefully u get more then what u got u got this bro 🤴 💪
Amazing! God bless!!
God did this to him dumb believer in fairy tales!
Robert Heinrich von Seyfenstern could u show some respect? Noob
@@robertheinrichvonseyfenste267 you do you judgement day is near
@@imrandom424, you guys have been saying judgement day is near for thousands of years
uh . you just made an older guy tear up.
i'm HAPPY to see you doing better,,, much better :0)))))
Well done! 😁
Who in the world would dislike this video?
This guy is a miracle!
Fantastic and God Bless!
WHO THE HELL DISLIKED?
Lol the atheists
@@kokosmith3341 That's a horrible assumption.
Miserable folks that disliked this video. Whatever works for you, doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it's important to you.
I been damage in sergery Drs did to me in San Diego and Drs fractured my T7 and did a fusion from T1 to T12 and that's the reason I can't walk anymore
Sure are alot of hopeless people out there!
It is really nice and we can get more knowledge for technology...
is there a chance to break the fusion for better mobility on my movement on spine and bring back nerve damage the fusion brought compression on spine that damage nerves and disc
That's awesome bro I was hoping for the same but I had to many set backs but there's hope with the new 3D printing spinal cord patches.
Amen Amen
He should thank himself as well as the people who helped him using modern medical science not Faith healing
Without allah he could have been on a wheel chair, Allah is the reason the modern science even exists.
You're Biblical illiterate. That's why you say those things.
Brent Lee Illiterate? You apparently don’t know the difference between a possessive and a contraction. You meant “you’re”, not “your.” Enjoy your little fairy tale.
He can thank them and yes Faith is the reason they all helped him
Blind guy: You can walk?
Mute guy: You can see?
Deaf kid: You can talk?
Doctor: What the Faak
nrg is a esports team
now he’s dezylarap
how did you heal nerves and spasms for improvements
If🙏❤️
Johnny Joestar
Amen
Update??
Is it me or doe's most people have the same last name?
DO most people
Robert Heinrich von Seyfenstern stfu you know what he meant
I'm also a paralysed man
In which country treatment is available?
AQ TV maybe America
@@julianpupo7353 Thanks..
I will try to contact
AQ TV your welcome
AQ TV I thinks it’s the “alegent creighton clinic”
@@ItzJPlayz Bundle of Thanks
3:01 you're welcome
Paralyzed people can walk because of robot legs
Blind people can see because of echo location
Mute people can talk because of Microsoft narrator
Dead people can hear because of hearing aid
Doctors : "Why do I exist."
Uhh, did you make a typo? 😳
You should change that lol
Have a nice day
@@jaypolas4136 😂😂💀
Good Morning 🌞 God bless ✝️ I just need to say that this video proves and validates what I know all along in this technology is real technology is a blessing and technology works. I know God is real, and I know he created these technologies for my reason, and I have a child who struggles with being able to walk me seeing this video proves that anything is possible and all I want is the same technology to help my situation because I know it exist. so my next question is how do I get the same assistance that I’m seeing in these videos for my situation with my child because I know they help us out there, so how can I be connected with the same people that helped these individuals to help me, please let me know because I’m willing to give it everything I have for the sake of my sonAmen 🙏 Thank Ms Dawson
How is he now? Video ♥️
Preeti Mishra Hey! I’m his son and we just made it past 10 years since the accident and we’re doing alright and he’s still doing everything he can to be a great father! God bless you and you have a great day!
@@jeffthompson4792
I'm also a paralysed man.please tell me the hospital and county name where your fortunate father cured
NICE
Mirical from god
Stem cells stem cells stem cells stem cells STEM CELLS!
It's a sign of God none of this would have happened if it weren't for God
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Blessings from our father jesus christ 😥🙏😇😇😇☺
Sky-daddy made him paralysed in the first place.
It's science that helped him not silly prayers
I’m a regular black guy im sure I’m at the bottom of the list for help with some form of revovery
I am too. Through God anything’s possible bro!! Matthew 19:26 💜☝🏾
God is real
i can walk again after my spinal cord injury too but come on lets be real "god" has nothing to do with him walking again it all him self that work he put in
GOD GIVES YOU THE STRENGTH AND THE WILL TO DO IT.....
@@diamond-mr9pn you are brainwashed in sorry
@@59FIFTYNEWERA1 you are brain washed
@@diamond-mr9pn nah for i dont believe in something that doesnt exsist.. but you do you
@@59FIFTYNEWERA1 how do you know it doesn't exist why does Israel exist then ?? Why is everything thats happening is prophesied in the bible, Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.(F) 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.(G) 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.(H) There will be famines(I) and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted(J) and put to death,(K) and you will be hated by all nations because of me.(L) 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets(M) will appear and deceive many people.(N) 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.(O) 14 And this gospel of the kingdom(P) will be preached in the whole world(Q) as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
If the belief in God helps then have at it! Don't think about about why God didn't help to prevent the accident in the first place.
Of course he thanks "god" and not medical science.
God does listen your just an ignorant bitch with nothing else to say.
BoostedSick- You're*
Actually "God" is fictional and does not listen to anything. Does God listen to the cry's of millions of children starving to death around the world? Does he listen to the cry's of children being raped and murdered? The villages being pillaged and burned in the Middle East?
BoostedSick- Another thing to think about, If some one has cancer and they don't take Chemotherapy they can have the whole world pray for them to get better and heal, but they will die 100% of the time. A person who takes the Chemotherapy and is never prayed for might live. God is fake,
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
everyone is entitled to their opinion, but faith bashing is very childish, i personally know this family and they are amazing. very inspiring. also he did say if you watch the entire video that he prayed for strength, not necessarily for healing. and he was given the strength he needed for each situation not ever knowing the outcome.
Stuart Little poop
Amen