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...fall, Waldrep crushed his fifth vertebra and bruised the spinal cord. At Birmingham's University Hospital, doctors were able to rebuild the damaged vertebra with a segment from his hip bone, and after intensive physical therapy Waldrep regained some use of his hands, arms and upper body. But he remained immobile from the waist down...
...home-town folks in Grand Prairie, Texas, Waldrep arrived in Leningrad last October. He was the second American sports figure among the nation's estimated 200,000 spine-injured patients to make that pilgrimage this year. (The other was Race-Car Driver Bob Hurt, who suffered spinal injuries in a crash at Indianapolis in 1968.) Last week, after six weeks of treatment, an ebullient Waldrep returned home to Texas with an increased sense of feeling in his legs and feet. More important, aided by braces, boots and a walker, he is able to stand and, he said, even "walk...
Snyder and his co-workers discovered in 1973 that the nerves of the brain and spinal cord contain specific sites to which opiates must bind in order to produce their effect. Morphine and similar drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced...
...Button Gwinnett Hospital, Flynt lay in critical condition. Surgeons began by removing much of his intestine. Then, in a second operation, they removed his spleen. After transferring him to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, doctors finally removed the bullet lodged near his spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called...
Most patients from south of the border tell much the same story. Arriving at a Canadian medical center armed with their spinal X rays, they usually need to spend only two days in a hospital. Almost unanimously, they give glowing testimonials to the benefit they have received. Indeed, if the injections are as curative as supporters claim, they would banish the need for costly operations for many of the estimated 170,000 Americans who each year undergo disc surgery...