Eden Hoelscher was paralyzed from the waist down after performing a backbend in her living room Erin Hill is the Senior Editor, Royals at PEOPLE. She has reported on Royals for the brand since 2015.

Doctors and physical therapists are marveling at a 6-year-old girl who is making unexpected progress after a simple backbend in her living room left her paralyzed. Eden Hoelscher, a first-grader from ...

It was a move Eden Hoelscher had done hundreds of times before. But when the 5-year-old girl of Palos Verdes, Calif., performed a backbend in her living room on the morning of Dec. 23, 2015, something ...

PALOS VERDES PENINSULA, Calif. — A 5-year-old California girl was paralyzed from the waist down after performing a backbend in on her living room floor. Eden Hoelscher suffered a traumatic spinal ...

Eden Hoelscher became paralyzed from the waist down on Dec. 23, 2015. Eden Hoelscher, 5, became paralyzed from the waist down after doing a backbend in her living room in December 2015. Kylee ...

Eden Hoelscher was left paralyzed from the waist down in December after performing a backbend that damaged her entire spine – but the inspiring 5-year-old isn't letting the devastating injury crush ...

For six years now, Li Huan has worked at a school cafeteria to keep her 12-year-old daughter Qingqing in class. Though deep in debt, there’s more at stake than money: Paralyzed and wheelchair-bound ...

In WH’s resident yogi Jessica Skye’s latest column, she demystifies backbends. The backbend – it’s one of the Marmite poses of yoga. However elegant and ‘Gramable a slinky arched back can look; our ...

6-Year-Old Paralyzed From Backbend Takes First Steps Eden Hoelscher, 6, took her first steps less than one year after a backbend left her paralyzed from the waist down. January 12, 2017 ...