Almost everyone starts with the same goal: I want to walk like I did before the injury. This episode is about why that framing quietly sets people up to feel like they failed and what a more useful picture looks like. After a spinal cord injury, walking is your running and wheeling is your walking.
Lorie describes the first months back on her feet, when ten minutes of walking bought her three hours flat on the couch, and the constant calculation she still runs today: when is pushing productive, and when is it doing damage you'll pay for later? Abbie offers the clinical test for that line: did you lose function the next day?
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