Central Valley women shares her journey of learning to walk again

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- September 13th, 2017, everlastingly changed Ellie Skromme's life.

"I was fundamentally surviving this precocious of graduated teenage life," said Ellie. "I had a tyre stroke out. The motortruck rolled six times, and I went done my driver-side window."

The car landed connected apical of Ellie, severely damaging her backmost on with different achy injuries.

"It gave maine a spinal cord injury, which was virtually the value of the prime up connected my vertebrae caused it to burst fracture," said Ellie.

Ellie was 17 years aged erstwhile doctors told her she would ne'er beryllium capable to locomotion again. At a young age, she needed to set to a caller beingness up of her.

"Being told you're ne'er going to locomotion again," said Elle, "as a precise progressive girl, I rode horses and played volleyball successful precocious school."

But that's erstwhile Ellie recovered SCI FIT connected Instagram.

Ellie was surviving successful South Monterey County astatine the clip and would marque the two-and-a-half-hour thrust to Fresno. She told Steve Nava and Mitch Ebner, the co-owners of SCI-FIT Fresno, that her extremity was to locomotion and basal again.

"Low bearing exercises, we bash a batch of functional question exercises, we bash a batch of developmental question patterns," said Steve Nava, the Co-Founder and COO of SCI-FIT Fresno.

The travel to get to her extremity wasn't easy. Some days were harder than others.

"The carnal goals of learning to locomotion again, I don't adjacent cognize however to explicate that intelligence battle," said Ellie.

"Standing up and experiencing them not moving is the astir frustrating happening I've ever experienced."

"Strengthening her core," said Mitch Ebner, the Co-Founder of SCI FIT Fresno, "all the exercises Steve mentioned were truthful pivotal successful getting her to the extremity end 5 years later."

In April this year, Ellie walked done the doors of SCI FIT without assistance from anyone.

It was a immense milestone successful her recovery.

Then, months later, connected September 13, 2024, 7 years aft her crash, Ellie walked down the aisle, joined by her father, Mitch and Steve.

"It was truthful affectional and meaningful due to the fact that astatine 1 constituent I though I would ne'er capable to locomotion down astatine my wedding,' said Ellie.

While Ellie has reached respective of her goals, determination is inactive much she wants to bash and accomplish.

Ellie wants to springiness backmost to SCI FIT by helping others be the rehabilitation center.

But she has this connection for anyone going done a akin journey.

"Your encephalon is incredibly powerful, and erstwhile you acceptable your caput to something, thing is achievable," said Skromme.

SCI FIT volition besides clasp its 3rd yearly play tourney astatine the Riverside Golf Course.

The wealth raised volition assistance make scholarships for radical who request fiscal help.

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