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Although he does have little mobility in his arms, he usually has an assistant with him to help him with any task he can not do on his own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqGaCguPTwM

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After Langevin's conditions were stabilized, he had no way to talk to others because of the tubes that were in his throat. So he would communicate by blinking when someone would move their finger over a letter he wanted to choose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4YPScKuJg

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It took the doctors several hours to stabilize Langevin's conditions and assess the damage of his injury.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4YPScKuJg

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Being quadriplegic means that you are paralyzed from the neck down. In Langevin's situation he is paralyzed from the neck down, but he does have  little use of his arms.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/quadriplegic
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Being restrained to a wheelchair results in him being late to meetings and other conferences he's expected to attend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4YPScKuJg

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Quadriplegia causes James to use a wheelchair to maneuver.
https://spinalpedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/james-langevin_12244.jpg

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Physical Therapy is given to quadriplegic patients to help maintain some amount of muscle tone and blood circulation as motionlessness in the lower body can result in a lack of these important functions.
http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/quadriplegia/

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Langevin suffered a complete split in his spinal cord.
http://utnews.utoledo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Medhkour-spinal-cord-x-ray.jpg

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First quadriplegic to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
http://langevin.house.gov/about-me/full-biography

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Langevin is a congressman who originally used to be a cadet in the police force. While talking to another cadet, two fellow officers were talking about one of their brand new guns. Upon inspecting the gun it fired ricocheting off of a locker splitting his spinal cord in half resulting in James becoming a quadriplegic.
http://beacon.static3.adqic.com/uploads/original/1448318087_d987.jpg