quadriplegic
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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Luis Cervantes chose to move home after recovering from a car accident that made him a quadriplegic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024
But I represented a young Black man who was quadriplegic whose elderly parents tried to help get him an ID several times, unsuccessfully.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024
When I met her she was a paraplegic; eventually she became a quadriplegic.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
I sat one day with a man who’d gone off young and healthy to an overseas deployment, leaving behind a pregnant wife, and had come back quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
“There were seven of us high quadriplegics sitting in a circle telling our versions of the same story,” Salvini said, “which was a transformative experience that I wanted to replicate for others in similar situations.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
Of those, 44 were marked as related to paraplegics, quadriplegics, other types of wheelchair users and other assistive-device users.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
"What I really find a lot of pride in is I help quadriplegics all over America," Himan said.
From Fox News ● Oct. 12, 2021
Much of the research has occurred in the medical realm, where, for years, scientists have worked incrementally toward giving quadriplegics and others with immobilizing neurological conditions better ways of interacting with the world through computers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
Jackson and his wife visited Nepal last October and, after seeing the stark conditions paraplegics and quadriplegics endure in an otherwise beautiful country, he resolved to make a difference.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2019
