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Surrey teen Emma Salisbury, left, lifts her left arm with the help of physiotherapist Lynn Dawson and a functional electrical stimulation (FES) device known as MyndMove at the Neuromotion rehabilitation clinic in Vancouver. (Photo: TOM ZILLICH) dreamed about since she was a preschooler. Emma was fine the entire time in the South Pacific, but when the family arrived home, she felt really lethargic – kind of like she had a case of the flu.
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t wasn’t quite the summer we had planned, let’s put it that way.” Caitlin Salisbury sighed and looked over at her daughter Emma, whose slight smile couldn’t hide the reality of the situation on a rainy Monday afternoon recently. A wheelchair sat in a corner of the family’s Sullivan Heightsarea home and the red-haired teen wore a plastic brace on her left shin and ankle. She has trouble moving her left arm but, thankfully, her right arm is just fine. Her legs are a work in progress, and she’s now able to walk short distances. Nobody saw this coming last May, when the family returned home from vacation in Hawaii. For Emma, the month-long holiday was a welcome breather before another busy summer of dance classes, this time as a student at the Arts Umbrella studio on Granville Island in Vancouver. It was going to be another step in her journey to become a professional dancer, something the Surrey teen has
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