Brent Worrall hand-cycles across Saskatchewan to raise awareness of PTSD

Worrall is a multiple trauma and brain injury survivor after suffering a life-changing motorcycle crash in 2011 which left him paralyzed below his arms.

As summer comes to an end for Saskatchewan families, many people are hanging the bikes up for the season. For one man from Vernon British Columbia however, this is the perfect time to ride a little over 400 kilometres.

That’s how far Brent Worrall is traveling by hand cycling across Saskatchewan to raise awareness of PTSD.

Worrall is a multiple trauma and brain injury survivor after suffering a life-changing motorcycle crash in 2011, which left him paralyzed below the shoulders.

“I flew 130 feet through the air, and the insult to injury was the bike hitting the ground and me as well, and it going up about 30 feet in the air, landing on me and it pretty much (wrecked) my spinal column from T-3 down to my L-1 so I have no voluntary movement below my arms

Then in 2017, Worrall was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

“One of the things that’s helped me get to where I am today in my PTSD recovery is meeting those challenges head on, because there’s so much personal growth, there’s so much reward, there’s so much recovery”

One of the most difficult things he has learned through his journey is the effect PTSD can have on those around you.

“My experience has shown me, through my own story and those of others that PTSD can and does have a silent and invisible, ripple-effect on the lives of those affected.”