Published February 09, 2012, 07:12 AM

Mom: Doctors expect girl hockey player to recover

The mother of a Minnesota girl’s hockey player paralyzed in an on-ice accident says doctors expect a full recovery.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The mother of a Minnesota girl’s hockey player paralyzed in an on-ice accident says doctors expect a full recovery.

Jenna Privette remains paralyzed from the waist down following last month’s hockey game accident. But her mother, Penny, tells the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a phone message that doctors “are anticipating a full recovery.”

Privette is a senior at St. Croix Lutheran High School. She was injured in a game Jan. 7 and is receiving physical therapy and rehabilitative care at Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul.

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