Rebel Admits She Can’t Feel Her Legs Enough Amid Rehab Struggles

Rebel’s battle isn’t getting easier — and her latest update makes that painfully clear as she can’t even perform basic movements now.

Just one day after opening up about chaos and frustration inside her inpatient rehab facility, the AEW star returned to Instagram on February 26, 2026 with another account of what she’s enduring. This time, the focus wasn’t scheduling issues or miscommunication — it was the physical toll. She began by describing a brutal shoulder session that left her in tears.

“So first was shoulders. It’s very painful. She worked on that shoulder and I cried like a baby — to the point that the head nurse came to check on me. It was so painful.”

From there, things only got more discouraging. Rebel explained that therapists attempted to help her transition from lying on her stomach to getting on her hands and knees — something that once would have been automatic. Now, she says, it feels impossible.

“After that, we tried to work on getting from my belly to my hands and knees. And you guys, as simple as that sounds, I can’t do it. My arms aren’t strong enough to push myself up, and I can’t feel my legs enough to get them underneath me. It’s hard to accept that something so simple is something I just can’t do right now.”

Occupational therapy brought more frustration, especially with the short time blocks. Speech and respiratory therapy followed, but Rebel admitted she felt like she was guiding the staff more than the other way around.

“We did OT and tried again to get me on my hands and knees, and obviously I couldn’t do it. That was the end of OT — only 30-minute sessions — which is annoying and frustrating. It’s another gripe I have about inpatient therapy. They had me blow into a contraption a few times and inhale into another device… Honestly, I found myself teaching the inpatient staff what I had been doing in outpatient therapy. They didn’t really know how to massage my throat or loosen it properly.”

One of her biggest complaints was the downtime between sessions, which she feels wastes valuable recovery hours. Even when physical therapy resumed later in the day, she felt the effort wasn’t enough to justify being there.

“I finished speech therapy at 10 a.m. And this is my major complaint — I had four hours of doing nothing. I’m sitting there thinking, ‘What am I doing?’ I had nothing until 2 p.m. At 2 p.m., I did PT, and again it was one or two exercises in a 30-minute session. This inpatient rehab feels like a joke, and I can’t wait to get back to outpatient. Even if it’s fewer days, I’m going to fight to get more time in outpatient.”

Rebel continues to battle primary pulmonary lymphoma and Functional Neurological Disorder, conditions that have severely impacted her mobility and speech. But this latest update shifts the limelight to something else entirely — the emotional exhaustion of feeling like recovery itself is becoming another obstacle. She’s not giving up — but she’s clearly fighting more than just her diagnosis right now.

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