Seat - Getting Back Behind The Wheel

"When I woke up I saw my parents and told them I was never going to walk again. They told me I would, but I knew better; I couldn’t feel my legs". It was clear to Cristina Sales from the very beginning. Since suffering a spinal cord injury last March she has had her sights on a single goal: to get the most out of her rehabilitation, or as she puts it, "shift into high gear and go all out". Every day she spends six hours at the Institut Guttmann in Barcelona, a clinic that specialises in the full rehabilitation of people affected by spinal cord injury, among other neurological disabilities. She performs all kinds of exercises at the clinic aimed at gaining autonomy and independence and looks to the future with great optimism. "Not a day goes by where I don’t see some kind of improvement; I’m constantly making progress and I know I can go even further. I think about what I want to do and work hard towards achieving it".