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date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:42:50 GMT,    group: uk.people.disability.bikers        back       
Request: People with Spinal Cord Injuries to join our online diary study.   
Request for more people with Spinal Cord Injuries to join our online diary 
study.



Click On the link below to download and watch John Cann Walking on Carlton 
Television News, after almost 11 years of paralysis below his injury site.



The file is 32.6 MB (34,200,035 bytes) zipped MPEG.

http://rapidshare.de/files/13376429/InsightSci_135-6649.rar.html



Link to Online Diary Study and more information about this simple 
non-invasive free therapy: http://carecure.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=43





Spinal Cord Injury



On Saturday April 15th 2000, John obtained the timber for parallel bars to 
be erected at his home in Cornwall, On Sunday I went to John's home and 
completed the job, for tomorrow was to be a momentous occasion indeed.



John was left paralysed, in 1990, when surgery to his spine went wrong. He 
was told that after two years any chance of further recovery would be highly 
unlikely and for the next six years he experienced little if any change in 
his condition.



Monday morning I am on my way to John's home in Cornwall, to meet with Tim 
Iredale, who is a news reporter for Carlton Television Southwest. We 
intended to witness something truly magical. But could not have imagined 
what was in store for us.



John was about walk in front of a television camera and crew for the first 
time in close to ten years. John had told me that he had regained the 
ability to move his legs, but I had grossly underestimated how much function 
John had regained.



During the interview, John was asked to show how he manages to get out of 
bed now and he transferred with ease both in and out of bed, leaning back 
and lifting his legs. He was then asked to raise his legs while lying on the 
bed and he obliged with ease. When asked if he could feel when touched on 
his legs, he replied my legs feel like normal legs instead of heavy weights. 
John then went on to explain how much of the swelling in his legs had 
gone-and that this flies in the face of the current act of elevating the 
legs above the heart. Advise from the medical profession, which John duly 
ignored in favour of sleeping with his legs down.



Fortunately for John this meant that he could now wear ankle braces and 
special shoes, which would, provided support for his substantially weakened 
and as yet unresponsive ankles.



John approached the parallel bars in his wheel chair and applied the brakes 
when he was in position. He grasped the two ends of the parallel bars and 
using his legs he pushed himself into a vertical position. Towering some six 
feet four inches, John moved one leg in front of the other, bending the 
knees as he lifted each leg to walk 12 feet to the end of the bars. I turned 
and looked at Tim and saw disbelief and astonishment flash across his face, 
I bet my face was a sight to behold too. John then turned his powerful 19 
stone body around and walked, yes walked back to his chair. Struggling and 
somewhat weakened by the experience, he lowered his body into the chair and 
his face had the expression of a boxer who had just knocked down his 
opponent. He said casually: 'Was that alright'? John had indeed delivered a 
powerful blow to his opponent.

Fortunately heavy rain prevented us from doing a retake and the rest of the 
interview took place in John's bedroom.



When the story was finished and everyone was ready to leave, I turned and 
thanked the camera man and Tim Iredale, who turned and said that this is one 
of those days that you will always remember, one of those days when you know 
exactly what you were doing.



The cameraman said while shaking my hand that: ' it has been a privilege to 
work with me and witness the results from such a simple application'.



I drove home the richest man alive that day and will remember it for the 
rest of my days.



On Monday the 17th April 2000 I waited for the local news on Carlton TV and 
saw the opening news which pictured me looking down my Naturesway Sleep 
System, a simple bed designed for to take us into the new millennium. After 
the interlude the fun really started. John was walking for everyone in the 
South West of England to see, at least. The news stayed focused on the 
remarkable effects of two eight-inch blocks tucked under the head end of 
John's bed. No $billion research, no waiting for the next ten years to see 
if it works and no room for any refutation of the results, which were plain 
for everyone to see on Carlton Television, News, Language Science Park, 
Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, UK. But John is not the only person with a spinal 
cord injury, who is benefiting from the effects of gravity, in fact there 
are two more people in the Torbay Area of Devon who are making steady 
progress.



Sunday Independent  April 16th,2000  page 4 Burrington Way, Plymouth PL5 3LN 
UK
date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:42:50 GMT   author:   Andrew K Fletcher

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