Stone Cold Steve Austin

I got pile drived in '96 or '97 and was a quadriplegic for about a minute and a half. I couldn't move anything. It was in the Meadowlands at a pay per view with a million or two people watching, and I couldn't move. That cost me a surgery, but I healed pretty quickly, so that was probably my worst day at the office.

American Actor

John Badham

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

British Director

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

American Artist

Hrithik Roshan

I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic - but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.

Indian Actor

Hume Cronyn

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.

English Actor

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

The term 'quadriplegic' carries an emotional impact, often evoking sympathy or seriousness.

Emotional Weight

Specify the cause when possible, as 'quadriplegic' stems from spinal issues, not other conditions.

Cause Clarification

Acknowledging a quadriplegic's abilities can be more positive than focusing on limitations.

Understanding Limitations

'Quadriplegic' as an adjective describes services, facilities, and conditions specific to quadriplegia.

Descriptor Usage

Ensure adjective-noun agreement; 'quadriplegic' modifies a singular or plural noun without changing form.

Grammar Consistency

'Quadriplegic' should not be used interchangeably with 'paraplegic', which refers to only legs.

Not Interchangeable

 a car accident that transforms your life completely. If you have a complete lesion of the spinal cord, you cannot move because your brainstorms cannot reach your muscles. However, your brainstorms continue to be generated in your head. Paraplegic, quadriplegic patients dream about moving every night. They have that inside their head.

Miguel Nicolelis:...

 where chips have been put on the motor cortex of completely quadriplegic patients, and they can control a cursor or a wheelchair or, potentially, a robotic arm. These devices are getting smaller and going into more and more of these patients. Still in clinical trials, but imagine when we can connect these, for example,

Daniel Kraft: Medicine's...

 to the news that she was a complete quadriplegic, had no movement from the neck down, had damage to her vocal chords, and she couldn't talk. They told me, "We're going to move you next to her because we think it will be good for her." I was worried. I didn't know how I'd react to being next to her.

Janine Shepherd: A...

 surgery is mediated by robotic surgery now how about controlling other elements for those who have disabilities the paraplegic there's the ear of brain computer interface or BCI where chips have been put on the motor cortex of completely quadriplegic patients and they can control a cursor or a

Medicine's future?...

 A single mother, talented chef, budding entrepreneur. In the early 90s, faced with the care for a quadriplegic mother and the growing needs of her daughter, Sharanda made a poor decision. On a few occasions, she transported drugs for a childhood friend.

The Creativity,...

 as loud and violent as a bomb. My head snapped back over my red seat. My eardrum blew. My shoes flew off. I flew too, my head bobbing on broken bones, and when I landed, I was a quadriplegic. Over the coming months, I learned to breathe on my own,

In search for the man...

 and he's blind and quadriplegic, which makes it hard to use those devices that we all take for granted. The last time I was at his house, his brother said, "Hang on a second, Daniel's not ready. He's on the phone with a woman he met online."

How AI can enhance our...

 She has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, so ever since she was born, she could neither move nor talk. And everything that she's accomplished so far, finishing school, going to college, starting a company, collaborating with me to develop Avaz,

Ajit Narayanan: A word...

 years ago and was now quadriplegic and unable to speak and relies on assistants to do the basic things in his daily life he has control of his of his head so he can do gaze control and so he can use things like a letter board in order to

Chad Jenkins: Robots...

 I suffered a stroke-like attack caused by a birth defect. Overnight, I became a mute quadriplegic at the ripe old age of 40. It took me several years, but with the help of an incredibly supportive family,