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Eric Struggles to gain movement of his body parts below his neck; however, he has seen improvements such as being able to move his shoulders and contracting muscles all the way down to his feet. This is a result of his rigorous physical therapy.

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Eric LeGrand

-Had poor form on a tackle, which led to severe damage to his spinal cord.

-He was on the ground unable to move or even give a thumbs up to the crowd.

-Put on a respirator at the hospital to help him breathe.

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http://www.jonheck.com/hdc/comments/legrandhit.htm

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With Eric's injury he was told that he would likely be placed on a machine to help him breath for the rest of his life due to the inability of the spinal cord to send messages to breath from the brain; however he was able to breath on his own only months after the injury occured. He was told his intense therapy may be useless because only 0-5% of the people are able to regain the ability to walk again.

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Eric's injury to his spinal cord is called a "complete" spinal cord injury where he has no sensation or movement in his body leaving him as a quadriplegic

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One of Eric's favorite and most beneficial forms of therapy is with a dog that plays games with him such as tug-a-war to help build Eric's strength and balance back

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http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1742526.1396403646!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/legrand2n-3-web.jpg?enlarged

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http://abcnews.go.com/images/Health/gty_eric_legrand_jrs_120502_wblog.jpg

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Eric is unable to move any of his body below his head leaving him unable to walk and move around to care for himself (JLS)

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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/video-legrand-cheered-rutgers-commencement-inspires-students-article-1.1797534

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7yKWPk01A

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/dog-trains-paralyzed-football-player-eric-legrand-article-1.1742529

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Eric says his hardest challenge is not being able to care for himself and having to rely on everyone else to take care of him.

To combat this he goes to physical therapy to try to "retrain" his nerves to send signals to move his muscles and to improve balance

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https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/eric_legrand-300x450.jpg

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-Football injury left him paralyzed from the neck down

-No control of body below point of injury.

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