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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary that explores the resilience and perspective of Chris Norton. In October 2010 at age eighteen, Chris suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury during a college football game. Doctors gave him just a three percent chance to ever move again. But he defied that diagnosis. After years of physical therapy and training, Chris' story went viral in 2015 when he successfully walked across the college graduation stage with the...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This intimate portrait focuses on Chris' remarkable recovery of movement and his constant fight to regain mobility via two documentary segments: Hope in motion and Choosing hope. Special features: interviews with Christopher Reeve, Brooke Ellison, Jim McLaren, and Jesse Billauer, and two stirring documentaries.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Jack Kessler was invited to head up the Neurology Department at Northwestern, his focus was on using stem cells to help cure diabetes. Soon after his move to Chicago, his 15-year-old daughter, Allison, was paralyzed from the waist down in a skiing accident. After the accident, Dr. Kessler changed the focus of his research to using embryonic stem cells to cure spinal cord injuries. Through his story, the stem cell debate is brought to the...
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