ANNUAL REPORT 2025 / 2026
Six years after a mountain biking accident left 
Chantelle Grafton paralyzed from the shoulders 
down, a research study at the Glenrose gave her 
something she hadn’t felt in years: movement.
Through Science 
For years, Grafton had learned 
to live with her new reality. 
A mountain biking accident near 
her hometown of Prince George, 
B.C., in June 2019 left her with 
a severe spinal cord injury. She 
fractured three vertebrae in her 
neck and was paralyzed from 
the shoulders down. For nearly a 
year, she relied on a ventilator to 
breathe.
“My goal was to get off the 
ventilator, and back to my life,” 
says Grafton, who despite the 
odds, was back at her job in 
water management with the B.C. 
government just ten months after 
her injury. 
She gradually returned to the 
things she loved, like travelling, 
camping, and coaching karate 
with her husband, also finding 
new passions and becoming an 
advocate for people living with 
spinal cord injuries. 
It was that advocacy that 
eventually led her to a research 
study a province away at the 
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital. 
Finding 
MOVEMENT

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