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Start T The Independent Sunday (London, England) September 15, 2002 ... FOCUS: Is Superman kidding himself? Christopher Reeve believes he will get back on his feet and doctors are reluctant to argue. But medical science is FOCUS: Is Superman kidding himself? Christopher Reeve believes he will get back on his feet and doctors are reluctant to argue. But medical science is finding it hard to match the paralysed actor's extraordinary will, says Jeremy Laurance.(Features) The Independent Sunday (London, England); September 15, 2002; Reeve, Christopher
Reeve, Christopher
The Independent Sunday (London, England)
September 15, 2002
The face is familiar, but the expression is weirdly bright, almost ecstatic. The eyes have a manic intensity, the skin is taut and the smile takes no prisoners. Here is a living head on a useless body that may soon, if you believe in miracles, be useless no longer.
It is seven years since Christopher Reeve, the actor most famous for playing Superman, was paralysed in a fall from his horse. Since then, he has devoted his life, and a considerable part of his fortune, to trying to repair his body and campaigning for more research into spinal cord injury. He has hired doctors and therapists, invested in exercise machines and electrical stimulation devices and investigated umpteen new treatments, from the orthodox to the outlandish. Over the past three years, he has spent pounds 857,000 on an "activity-based recovery programme". Last week he claimed it had worked. | |
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