[15] The same year, while competing at the IPC Athletics World Championships at Lyon, France, Vervoort fell during the 800m race after a collision with Michelle Stilwell of Canada.

[3][17] Her next competition was in 2014, at the ParAthletics IPC Athletics Grand Prix held at Nottwil, Switzerland,[17] where she won the 200m,[17] as well as the 1,500m and 5,000m, in both of which she set new world records.

While making pasta, she lost consciousness, accidentally poured hot water over herself and sustained second-degree and third-degree burn wounds from the chest down to her ankles.

[9][17] At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, she won the silver medal in the T51/52 400m wheelchair race and bronze in the T51/52 100m.

[7][22] Vervoort began experiencing symptoms at the age of 14 of what would later be diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy: an incurable degenerative disease of the muscles and spine,[5] which caused severe pain, paralysis in her legs, and made it very difficult for her to sleep.

[27] Vervoort also had epilepsy,[7][24] and lived with her assistance dog, Zenn,[22][28] who was able to alert her to an upcoming seizure an hour before it occurred.