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...real problems came from a slug that entered the fluid-filled spinal canal and came to rest head downward opposite the first lumbar vertebra, just at the waist. At week's end the doctors still could not say whether the bullet severed all or part of the bundle of nerves that carries impulses from the lower body to the brain. But in any case, the effect could be devastating. The very impact of the bullet probably bruised the delicate nerve tissue severely, causing grave injury. Wallace reported no feeling in his legs; neither his bladder nor his bowels were...
...Your article on compression fractures of the vertebrae, "Snowmobiler's Back" [March 15], struck a responsive chord. For several years now I have been studying the vertebrae of Canadian Eskimo skeletons recovered from archaeological sites, some of these dating back a thousand years. One of the things noted was an extremely high frequency of compression fractures, with 45% of the adults having at least one fractured vertebra. The cause became quickly apparent the first time I rode on an Eskimo sled. The sled, of course, has no springs, and the jarring is transmitted directly to the rider...
...roll over on your back, then ease down to the floor again, vertebra by vertebra, exactly as you are told. And you wonder to yourself, as each knobby vertebra touches the floor, whether each had a dense, prehistoric life of its own, and more even than that, whether each tiny knob is some kind of control which if you could only master it, would free you in any of a number of ways, free you from a sad memory or a bad dream, from worrying when you can't fall asleep or when you're not quite sure you want...
Lukawski, who suffers from a congenital malformation of a vertebra in his back, entered last year's Cornell game and was promptly hit hard twice. "It hurt like hell," he said. The 6-2, 220-pounder suffered severe muscle spasms in his lower back and was taken to the infirmary for two days. He missed the rest of the season...
...goes-for three days, at $72 per day. For every yang there's a yin -the sybaritic pleasure of a pedicure is naturally followed by the sweet agony of a 102-lb. Japanese girl walking on your back, massaging each vertebra with her toes. There is the Siesta Room, where you lie under artificial stars winking in a midnight-blue ceiling. But there is also the Orthion, a space-age torture rack that rolls, vibrates, heats up and stretches you in two directions at once. The end result: minus 5 Ibs. "Nice going, champ!" says Director Hutton...