The dance moves may be written in the lyrics, but for Jennifer Parker, learning the “Electric Slide” was a long time coming.

The 48-year-old from El Paso, Texas, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2018, which led to short-term amnesia and a rare spinal cord injury that would leave her paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors had little assurance Parker would ever walk again, much less dance.

“I had so many complications that the neurologist had no idea what my prognosis was going to be,” Parker tells The Post, adding that she’s had several brain surgeries as well as spinal decompression surgery.

Two years after her life-shattering diagnosis and months of therapy, Parker is no longer wheelchair-bound and celebrated by performing the line dance surrounded by cheering family, friends, local media and medical staff at The Hospitals of Providence Outpatient Therapy Central on Friday.

The feeling, she says, is “indescribable.”

“This is so overwhelming and definitely humbling,” says Parker, who decided on her benchmark boogie last summer. Around that time, she and her husband Travis had joked during a physical therapy session that she’d soon be dancing the “Electric Slide.”

That’s when Parker’s affectionately dubbed “bestie therapist,” Victoria Nunez, hatched a plan for her patient’s physical-therapy graduation day, surprising her with the big audience.

“I didn’t doubt it,” says Nunez of her patient. “She was making gains so quickly and so frequently.”

After spending two months in bed following surgery after surgery, Parker, a former compliance manager in the steel industry, began almost around-the-clock physical recovery. Her grueling routine included one hour of physical therapy six days a week and one hour of occupational therapy, which helped her relearn basic tasks such as brushing her teeth or showering, five days a week.

“They gave me a certificate for being the longest in-patient therapy patient there,” says the persistent patient.

Parker’s yearning for freedom eventually led her to a swimming pool, “somewhere where I wasn’t afraid of falling,” she said. At first, she required a handicap lift and doctor’s supervision to train at the therapy center’s pool three days a week. After considerable progress, she was then “blessed” with a water heater for her pool at home so that she could continue working on her own time — and did so seven days a week for several more months.

“I was going to keep doing what I could do until I couldn’t do it anymore,” says Parker, who would swim to exhaustion.

By that time, she was already defying odds.

“She didn’t take ‘no’ for an answer,” says Nunez. Even as doctors and therapists cautioned, “she never looked at that negatively.”

“She was just always positive,” Nunez adds. “She always walked into the clinic every day with a smile on her face because she was ready to get better.”

Travis says he was blown away while watching his wife dance confidently.

“To watch her progression to today, with the neurological deficits, it’s just amazing what her resiliency has been able to accomplish,” says the retired Army veteran, who has seen his fair share of injuries during his 22 years of active duty.

“I was ecstatic. I was humbled. I was happy and excited to see what her next chapter is going to be.”

That chapter, according to Parker, will include more hikes, especially with her two adult daughters, a focus on her “cognitive stamina” and planning her next career move.

“I want to do something where I can make a difference, where I can be a positive role model,” she says, although her loved ones would agree she’s already accomplished those goals.

“I lost my job, my responsibilities … my financial contribution to my family and security, but in that process, I have gained so much appreciation for life, and patience,” says Parker.

Now, she has a mantra that keeps her motivated: “Do what you can, while you can, because you don’t know what tomorrow will bring.”