A female hockey player in Minnesota who was seriously injured during the first week of the year has made significant progress with the aid of people who hold physical therapy jobs, according to a published report.
Jenna Privette of Burnsville seriously injured her spinal cord during a January 7 game yet has vowed to persevere in her recovery during physical therapy training sessions, The Burnsville Patch reports. Her thighs now move and feel sensations, which her mom attributed to the physical therapy sessions.
"Well, we finally have some success," Penny Rich-Privette wrote late last week. Physical therapy "has been working so hard on her hips and her thigh muscles. We are so thrilled to see the excitement in her and from the therapists. Her Doctors gave her a high five."
The January 7 injury caused her to be paralyzed below the waist yet her doctors said a full recovery is within reach, her mother told The Pioneer Press earlier this month.
No timetable has been established for the recovery from what is akin to a bruise to her spine rather than a severed spinal cord, her mother said doctors told her.