Today Thom is doing ball exercises in the gym with sports therapist Amber. The idea is that by catching and throwing the ball from different angles, he will become more stable in his wheelchair, he says. Because he has no feeling in his torso, that is important. “That way I have less chance of falling out of my wheelchair.”
Thom learns to live and play sports with a spinal cord injury: ‘Paralympic Games are a great motivation’
