Spinal Cord Injury

health-clarification

As of the latest verified reporting, Jacob Blake is not paralyzed permanently in the sense of being a complete, irreversible paraplegic or quadriplegic. However, he sustained si...

health-injury

On May 27, 1995, Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse during a riding competition, resulting in a severe cervical spinal cord injury. The fall caused a fracture and dislo...

Celebrity Profiles

Christopher Reeve died on October 10, 2004, at age 52, from cardiac arrest resulting from complications tied to a spinal cord injury sustained in a 1995 horse riding accident. H...

Celebrity Profiles

Me Before You asks hard questions about care, consent, and quality of life, and it draws emotional power from being rooted in a true story. This verified explainer clarifies wha...

Status Updates

Christopher Reeve remains alive but is unable to breathe or move independently due to the C1–C2 spinal injury sustained in the 1995 equestrian accident. He uses a ventilator a...

health-injury

In brief: a broken back alone is not always immediately fatal, but it can lead to life threatening complications. Outcomes depend on fracture pattern, spinal level, whether the...

biography

In 2002, Christopher Reeve was four years into his recovery from the 1995 equestrian accident that caused a severe cervical spinal cord injury. By then, he had established the C...

people

Matthew Reeve is the elder son of actor Christopher Reeve and activist Dana Reeve, born into a family thrust into the public eye after his father’s 1995 spinal cord injury. As...

Health & Injury Explained

At Rutgers University, a football player sustained a spinal injury during a game that resulted in paralysis. This verified profile explains how and when the injury occurred, the...

Celebrity Profiles

On May 27, 1995, actor Christopher Reeve sustained a severe cervical spinal cord injury in a horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. The accident occur...