Critics gushed praise for the work of a Christopher Reeve, who has yet to be erased from collective memory like Kal-el. Marvel, how beautiful you are!
When he flies, it is not only with special effects, he flies with his face, with his eyes Reeve reappeared in public at the Oscar Awards. Always dependent on assisted breathing, during his last years, he had managed to improve his quality of life by recovering movement in one finger and sensitivity in his legs. Despite his condition, the actor continued to perform he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on a TV remake of Rear Window and directed several TV movies until his death in October at the year-old.
Twenty-five years after his equestrian accident, Reeve is still remembered by movie enthusiasts for having laid out the foundations of the modern superhero in the film industry. Proving, as Robert Downey Jr.
Some critics argue that the New Yorker left the bar so high that none of his successors will succeed in bringing a Clark Kent worthy of him.
I think that he must have thought that Superman would have behaved in that way if it had happened to him. Knowing, moreover, that any achievement would not save a life, but perhaps would save those who would come after him. It was terrible but magnificent at the same time.
He claims that the wheelchair used by Reeve has today become an almost as powerful symbol as the red coat of Superman. Located in the foundation's offices, thousands of visitors look at it every year, aware that the legacy forged by its owner aided hundreds of thousands of lives without the need, at least in real life, to raise a hand from the ground to fill the skies.
This classification means that the patient has no sensory or motor function below the shoulders. Reeve was not only paralyzed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair, but he was unable to breathe without assisted ventilation. A complete description of the five ASIA categories of spinal cord injury is provided in the table below.
In the first five years following his traumatic spinal cord injury, Reeve experienced no substantial recovery, and his condition persisted as Grade A injury. Clinical observations of Reeve at the time suggested that he would not have any further recovery. Sensory, but not motor function is preserved below the injury and includes sacral segments S4-S5. Motor function is preserved below the injury, and more than half of key muscles below that point have a grade less than 3. Motor function is preserved below the injury, and more than half of key muscles below that point have a grade of 3 or more.
For references and more information, see: Blakeslee, S. September 12, Actor regains some movement, doctor says, New York Times. As actor Christopher Reeve remained paralyzed and unable to breathe on his own five days after breaking his neck in an equestrian accident, experts in spinal cord injuries said Thursday that the circumstances--breaks high in the spinal column--indicate a potentially devastating injury, among the worst imaginable.
Reeve, an accomplished horseman, broke the top two cervical vertebrae and injured his spinal cord when he was thrown from his horse and landed on his head during competitive trials Saturday in an event in Culpepper, Va. John Toerge, an osteopathic rehabilitation physician at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. His physicians said that it would be premature to speculate on his prognosis. They would say only that they are considering surgery to stabilize his spinal column.
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