However, he had 'very nasty lower limb fractures and a spinal injury' and received sedation for staff to straighten his legs.

Had the player hit the ground only slightly further up his spine, the potential for a catastrophic spinal injury would have been high.

I became an ambassador for a spinal injury charity and was invited to be on the board of governors of my former school.

His career was over, or so it seemed, after a spinal injury two years ago.

Writing for the Magazine from hospital, she ponders the vicissitudes of life in the spinal injury unit.