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Apparelyzed - Spinal Cord Injury Support
This site was created in August 2003, following many year's of contemplation and idle daydreaming.
The site was first designed to allow people to buy T-Shirts and other apparel regarding Spinal Cord Injury humour (hence the name, Apparelyzed!). However, it has grown organically into something larger, and now covers Spinal Cord Injury Anatomy, Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support Forum, SCI Research area as well as a carefully picked links directory. The apparel side of the site is now pretty much a by-product, and helps finance the running costs of the site.
About the site owner
Simon, that's me, the site creator of Apparelyzed is a C5/6 Quadriplegic, who was a front seat passenger injured in a road traffic accident in Leicestershire in January 1992. The accident resulted in a burst fracture of C5, resulting in complete motor paralysis below C5/6, with sensory sparing.
I am now classed in medical terms a Quadraplegic, as my paralysis affects both my arms and legs. Road traffic accidents are now the most common cause of people suffering a spinal injury and becoming a Paraplegic or Quadraplegic.
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