Comebacks After Spine Injury: Patient Stories

At the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center, we have treated some of the most challenging injuries.

What our Patients Say

A year after a horrifying plane crash, Joe Oppedisano is back on his feet, and back to work.
Matilde Anacoreta moved to New York from Portugal at age 7 with her parents, Maria and Miguel, and her brother, Mateus. By middle school Matilde was a typical American girl, enjoying skiing and surfing. But at age 13, Matilde had to take a break...
Peter Schreiner, 27, a scuba diving instructor from New York, recently finished the 2018 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile — a modest race for most runners but a huge accomplishment for someone whose spine was fractured. Peter made his 44-minute journey...
Joyce Carpati knew as soon as it happened that this was no ordinary fall. Of course, she is no ordinary 85-year-old, either: Beauty maven, fashionista, singer, longtime staffer at Cosmopolitan magazine and friend of Helen Gurley Brown, Joyce had...
As she headed into her final few weeks of high school, Karina Escalante was at the top of her game: An honor student and two-sport athlete, she’d been accepted into college and was cruising easily toward graduation. There was no reason to think that...

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