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The brother of an 18-year-old man who was severely injured at a trampoline facility in Sherwood Park said his sibling is recovering after spinal surgery, but there’s a long road ahead.

“They took off the halo apparatus,” said Jordan Smith, 21, shortly after his brother Landon Smith’s four-hour surgery was over on Tuesday. “He’s in his custom neck brace.”

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Landon Smith was injured Saturday night at Jump Park Trampoline, which celebrated its grand opening on Nov. 30. Landon had been at a friend’s birthday party when he jumped into a foam pit.

“Everybody thought he was just kind of joking around,” Jordan Smith said, adding that his brother had stopped moving immediately. He had suffered a broken neck, damaged spinal cord, torn ligaments and an injured C5 vertebrae, Smith said.

“His life is definitely going to change. What that means, the doctors aren’t sure, we’re not sure,” he said. “He has no movement in his legs right now, he’s got feeling in some parts of his legs and in his feet.”