 Edina Müller was born on 28 June 1983 , and raised in the Rhineland town of Brühl . In 2000 , at the age of 16 , she was playing volleyball , and felt pain in her back . A doctor straightened her back , but within two hours she lost feeling in her legs . She was rushed to hospital where a blood clot was discovered . Diagnosed with paraplegia , she spent the next four months in hospital . She had to repeat Year 10 at Max Ernst Gymnasium , but graduated in 2003 . Although confined to a wheelchair , she longed to return to playing sport , and initially tried sitting volleyball . She then took up wheelchair tennis , winning the Hungarian Open in 2005 , but ultimately switched to wheelchair basketball , playing for ASV Bonn . In 2005 she was invited to attend a German national team training camp by its coach , Holger Glinicki . The following year she made the national team and won bronze at the World Championships in Amsterdam . 
