sentences:  Jones suffered a spinal injury playing in his normal position of open-side flanker for his club Cardiff against Swansea in December 1997.For five days after the accident he was unable to move from the chest down even though X-rays showed his spinal cord to be severely compressed rather than broken.At the time of the accident he was 25 years old, captain of Wales and having attained 13 caps was expected to have a long and distinguished playing career.