A few years ago I was gifted with the opportunity to help a man named Michael, a dancer who had been paralyzed from his neck down as the result of an injury. Before he suffered the injury, I had treated him a few times for minor sprains and strains. His dream was to dance in Broadway productions and he was devastated by his paralysis. Michael could still move his head and arms, but he believed it when he was told that he would never walk again. He lost interest in trying to improve and was beginning to lose his ability to speak clearly. He truly had a broken body and broken heart. When he arrived at my office in his wheelchair, his head hung down so far we couldn't make eye contact. I could see that he had nearly given up, so I got down in front of him, took his hands in mine, looked into his eyes, and said: from page 7 read more