Triathlon time as ten-year-old fights back from cerebral palsy

But the inspirational 10-year-old has now raised hundreds of pounds for another young sufferer after he completed a triathlon.

He ran half-a-mile, cycled half-a-mile and did 25 lengths in his local swimming pool in Filey to raise £832 to help India Robertson, 11, reach her fundraising goal for a procedure in the USA.

His own remarkable transformation came about after undergoing an operation, called a selective dorsal rhizotomy, at St Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri in 2009.

The procedure involves severing the nerves in the spine which send messages to paralyse the leg muscles.

With the tensed muscles free to resume normal movement, the patient is then able to walk.

His mother, Debbie, 48, said: “It was so wonderful to see Jack do all these events.

“He looked marvellous running down the street. It is nothing short of a miracle.”

Jack added: “I feel just like everybody else does now.”

About 1,800 children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy in the UK each year.

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