Early in 2007, break dancer Raphael Xavier woke up with a sore neck and shoulders. He wasn't worried — "I usually work out really, really hard," he says — but the soreness kept getting worse. "One day I couldn't walk, and then one day I couldn't move at all. Ultimately I was paralyzed for a couple days and went through a whole gamut of doctor stuff."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 02:47PM on February 18, 2014