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...stacks of hay will remain for two weeks, Waldrep said. "In two weeks [the arrangement] is going to look much different from how it looks now," he added...
Fred W. Umminger '90 and George C. Waldrep III '90, the project's creators, received $700 from the Office for the Arts to build their hay ruins and other landscape...
Refusing to accept a life sentence to the wheelchair, Waldrep began investigating an experimental and disputed Soviet treatment being used at Leningrad's Polenov Neurosurgery Research Institute. Helped by the intervention of Texas Congressman Jim Wright, the House majority leader, and contributions of nearly $15,000 from a T.C.U. fund raiser and his 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...
...Waldrep ascribed his improvement entirely to the Soviet doctors and therapists, whom he found much more compassionate than American physicians. Said he: "You couldn't get a tear out of a doctor here even if you stuck an onion in his face." As Waldrep described it, his Leningrad regimen involved strenuous physiotherapy (weight lifting, massages, etc.), five-day-a-week sessions in a high-pressure oxygen chamber and, most controversial, daily muscle injections of a tissue-softening enzyme called hyaluronidase. The Soviet rationale for its use: it can prevent and break down scar tissue around damaged spines, thereby presumably...
...American researchers are trying to duplicate the rat experiment, but Dr. Murray Goldstein, NlNCDS's deputy director, says that preliminary results are disappointing. In Leningrad, Ugryumov acknowledged that the treatment is "complex" and involves a number of factors besides the enzyme, including psychological ones. In Waldrep's case, he added, "all that combined to produce the result: the immobile patient has regained ability to move by use of his back muscles...