Leeds LiveMarlon Laight, shares his story from being told he may never walk again to walking 22 miles in lockdown and mastering moonwalking in Leeds Live this weekend. 

Marlon’s car crash left him with a traumatic brain injury and two cracked ribs and he was rushed to hospital where he was put into an induced coma in April 2018.

Medics told his mum Helen that his life-support machine may be turned off when doctors returned to work after the bank holiday weekend as he was showing no signs of life. Marlon began moving his fingers the next day, much to his mum’s relief, and woke from his coma eight weeks after his crash.

Marlon was wheelchair-bound on his release from hospital. It was feared he may never walk again. Three years on, after intensive rehabilitation and physiotherapy at MOTIONrehab’s Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centres, Marlon is now walking, running and even busting a dance move after making remarkable progress.

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MOTIONrehab launched the UK’s first Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation centre augmented with Robotics and Virtual Reality technology in April 2018. MOTIONrehab was quickly recognised by the Financial Times, Google and leading European policy makers for technological innovation, its role in leading digital change, and in challenging an industry sector with a disruptive business model in the field of rehabilitation on  ‘Europe’s Road to Growth list’.  Following the success that patients were seeing at the Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centre in Leeds, MOTIONrehab decided to expand its services and open a second Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centre at its clinic in Hull, in December 2020.