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Life, as they say, can turn on a dime. One of the everyday pleasures in a child’s life—a car trip, school football game, or bounce on a trampoline—can end with a disastrous snap. Partial or complete spinal cord injury (SCI) currently affects as many as 63,000 American children, according to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, with consequences that can begin with neural deficit or paralysis and extend to a lifetime of secondary medical problems.
