https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=_a33x5XgznI After a fall, 9-year-old Danica was left with metal rods, which had been implanted years before to stabilize her spine and had broken in the accident, floating dangerously close to her brain stem. Danica and her family traveled from Ohio to Johns Hopkins to receive life-altering, complex reconstruction surgery from Neurosurgical Spine Center Director Nicholas Theodore, M.D. Danica is now able to ride a bike for the first time ever. The first sign of something wrong with Danica Snyder’s spine came at age 13 months, when she cried out in pain when turning her head a certain way during diaper changes. Then, while posing for a family portrait at 18 months old, Danica’s head kept falling to one side. Danica and her mother share a special moment. “Everyone said she had torticollis,” says Danica’s mother, Monica Kaye Snyder. Torticollis, or “twisted neck” in Latin, which can oc...
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