Hong Kong dancer paralysed in Mirror concert starts rehab ‘marathon’ to regain movement
- Dancer Mo Li Kai-yin, 29, undergoes successful two-stage surgery for spinal injury sustained at concert of boy band Mirror
A dancer paralysed after he was hit by a massive LED screen at a Hong Kong concert by boy band Mirror two years ago has started therapy to regain movement and learn to use his limbs again after successful two-stage surgery on his spine.
The father of 29-year-old Mo Li Kai-yin, the Reverend Derek Li Shing-lam, said at the weekend that the operations appeared to have gone well.
“There were no initial side effects or adverse reactions after the two-stage surgery, Reverend Li wrote on Facebook.
He added the family were now starting a “marathon” of physiotherapy exercises to help his son regain movement, beginning with gross motor skills – those that require the use of large muscles for activities such as walking and sitting up unaided.
Reverend Li said the process was similar to “learning to reorganise each frame in a slow-motion video” so that signals received by the nerves could be adjusted to make “the most correct and precise movements”.
“Over the past two years, Mo has been unable to perform such movements,” he added.
“Now it’s like he is learning to function again, just like a newborn baby learning how to take control of his hands and feet.”
