<span itemprop="author">Dr. Olivia Ong

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The first time I walked again after a spinal cord injury

Once upon a time, I’d imagined myself the Lone Ranger physician, self-sufficient and incapable of weakness, and when I had my spinal cord injury in 2008, I really felt alone, in the negative spiral of a victim mindset, my own worst enemy and in a…

My spinal cord injury story from physician to patient, and how I rebuilt my nervous system

t took a traumatic spinal cord injury in 2008 to transform my life. The experience was a radical awakening. I was told that I would never walk again. On one fine spring day in 2008, my life changed forever. I was walking to work when I was hit by a car…