In 1999, Laquita Conway was in the midst of purchasing a farm out of state when she received the news she’ll never forget: Her son Aaron had been in a severe motocross accident and was potentially paralyzed for life.
Laquita jumped on the next plane to California to rush to her son’s side. When she arrived, the doctors gave her a grim prognosis for Aaron’s future. Aaron was a C-6 quadriplegic, and the chances of him ever functioning again were “one in a million.”
“I personally slid down the hallway after yelling at the doctors and felt that there was no way that I could get up again,” Laquita said. “Then I realized that I wasn’t the one who was in need. It was Aaron.”
While Aaron began inpatient rehabilitation, Laquita scoured for more physical therapy options for her son. What she found shocked her; resources for those with new SCI injuries were few and far between.
Aaron chose a rehabilitation program at a kinesiology lab at Cal State Northridge run by personal trainer and former professor Taylor Issacs. There he had massive improvements, regaining the ability to walk and eventually even biking the L.A. marathon.
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