The operation to correct the injury had to potential to leave him in a wheelchair if it was unsuccessful.
Leaving the hospital in a wheelchair last week, 18 days after the accident, he acknowledged: "I set a very bad example."
I felt sorry for her when she left here in a wheelchair.
She left the court in a wheelchair as Rodionova advanced to the third round.
Surgery left him in leg braces and a wheelchair for six weeks.
It also left him in a wheelchair for three months.
As always, his voice conceded nothing to the illness that left him in a wheelchair.
At 15, in 1990, his father had a stroke that left him in a wheelchair.
It was here that he sustained an injury which left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
However experimental surgery on his legs when he was ten left him in a wheelchair.