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adidan

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Paralysed cycling champ 'cured' after crash

This is a great story.


	Quote: Monique Van der Vorst, a Paralympic silver medallist in hand cycling, lost the use of her legs as a result of an operation that went wrong and an accident when she was a teenager. The 27-year-old from the Netherlands had another accident while training last year and, in an extraordinary twist, she regained the use of her legs. She describes her unexplained recovery and her search for a new identity after being disqualified from competing in the Paralympics - which has resulted in her being offered a contract with a professional road cycling team.

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Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:32 pm

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Re: Paralysed cycling champ 'cured' after crash

I saw this.

Chances are it was all in her head in the first instance. If you have neurological damage, it won't suddenly "repair itself" instantaneously. However, if it was in her head, then things would work instantly as normally as before.

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Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:32 pm

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Re: Paralysed cycling champ 'cured' after crash

That's got to make it onto Russel Howard's Good News! 8-)

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Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:03 pm

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Re: Paralysed cycling champ 'cured' after crash

I like a feel-good story every now and then, to break up the monotonous downward spiral we all seem to be in.

I'm reminded of the woman who was blinded for several years, after an accident.

She always wanted to try a parachute jump, and her family set it up for her; tethered to a professional skydiver.

On the way down, she had the sensation of pressure building up inside her head, something went 'pop', and by the time she touched down she could see light.

She later regained full use of her eyes. 8-)

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