An Instagram fitness model who was left paralyzed from the neck down after falling on her head while doing an inverted sit-up has credited prayer and her Christian faith as major factors in her “miraculous” recovery.
Marcelle Mancuso, 23, a fitness model from Brazil, broke a vertebrae after slipping off a bench while performing the abdominal exercise on a gym bench in January of 2016.
“It was just another normal day of training,” the law graduate told SWNS. “I went to perform the abdominal inverted sit up, and was upside down. I was attached to the equipment with a strap, which broke and the personal trainer could not hold me. I hit the back of my head on the floor, and immediately lost all body movements with the blow.”
“I lost all the movements from the neck down when I hit my head on the floor,” she recalled. “I could move my eyes. I had to keep calm and began to pray.”
After being rushed to the hospital, Mancuso was told she had broken the fifth vertebrae in the neck section of her spine, knocked another one out of place, and squashed a third, compressing her spinal cord.
Doctors performed emergency surgery and fitted her with a titanium plate held by six screws into her spine, but warned her she may never regain feeling in her arms and legs.
“My diagnosis was tetraplegia — no movement in my arms or legs. The doctors did not know if I would walk again or if I would stay on a bed forever,” she said.
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