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[lavenderthistle]

Scuba Diving

My husband saw this article in the Detroit Free Press today and suggested I share it in case anyone finds it neat to read.

[greybeard]

Hey, Twisted Ophelia, you've done plenty of this stuff. You running yet?

[Vanessamaee]

I saw the news story on this. I think it was on 60 minutes. That makes me sound really old, but sometime they have really interesting stuff! I don't hold this as a possible hope of regaining sensation. Mostly because from what the news story said, they were all incompletes. Cody Unsur, the girl this story is mostly written over, was diagnosed with TM when she was young and became paralyzed when she was 12 from it. In my opinion a disease effecting the spinal cord and a accident/injury to the spianl cord causing the paralysis are two different boats. Itd be nice though if something so cool and fun could help cure sci! lol

[lavenderthistle]

wondering why my reply was removed? oh well, no biggie!

[Taylor818]

I hadn't heard about this story until now. I understand that most, if not all of the participants had incomplete injuries and more likely to regain any form of sensation back, but it never hurts to try new things. If nothing else, a little swim with the fishes never hurt anyone .

[Trinity]

there has been a lot of anecdotal evidence on the benefits of hyperbaric therapy, although many times this appears to be related to the oxygen concentrations involves it could be that pressures play a greater part than originally thought
Interesting

[Apparelyzed]

Hi Lav,

Neither Trin nor I have removed any replies from this thread, are you sure you posted the reply, or did you preview it by mistake?

Simon

[wheeliebear75]

Whether it was helpful to only those who have incomplete injuries or not....I think it's still a great "lead" on a new therapy. Even if it just makes it so that the seams on the insides of socks don't bother the toes.....that'd be AWESOME!
(I can not begin to tell you how much that seam bugs neuropathy....I'm constantly turning/wearing them "in-side-out".)

[lavenderthistle]

 Apparelyzed, on 15 November 2011 - 10:51 AM, said:

Hi Lav,

Neither Trin nor I have removed any replies from this thread, are you sure you posted the reply, or did you preview it by mistake?

Simon

I'm pretty sure I posted it, but it honestly was unimportant.

Essentially I just said TO will be doing plenty of running after little Noa soon enough. They grow so very quickly.



If I were bothered I would have whined I just now noticed this reply. Oops.....further oops...I just now noticed the 'preview post' button...wow! Ok maybe I did hit that???

Edited by lavenderthistle, 11 December 2011 - 06:32 AM.

[mellowgator]

i've been a diver for years. i have never noticed an increase in sensation or movement. i do have all over sensation and love to dive. i can see where it reduces depression but when your in the ocean looking at beautiful reefs and swimming around how can you be bummed.



mellowgator

[allis53ca]

...then theres THIS paraplegic scuba diver : http://www.torontosu...issing-26-years