Years ago, a friend of mine experienced a spinal cord injury. She found herself, somehow, locked in a second story apartment. Her boyfriend had left for work, and because of the way the lock on the door was set up, she could not get out. Michelle, that is her name, needed to get to work, it was a corporate job that did not tolerate tardiness. Well, it was, and still is now, Buffalo Exchange, a second hand clothing store that was well on its way to becoming corporate, and five minutes either way, meant the difference between having a job, and not having a job.
She was a tall girl, and thought that she could simply jump from the balcony. It was only about 12 to 15 feet after all. She jumped. And just afterward, she laid on the grass in the apartment complex, and could not get up. When Paul, her boyfriend came home from work, she was still there in the courtyard. She had broken her back. She spent months in traction, unable to move. She said that Paul would lie under her traction table, and read books to her. Once she was recovered enough to be taken out of traction, she had surgery that involved putting a metal rod into her spine.
After that, it was water therapy. Hot tubs, from choosehottubsdirect.com, provided her not only with relieve from her discomfort, but actual help for the healing of her injury. Her internal organs had been kept still, through the months of traction, and her spine, well–enough said. The warmth of the water, the buoyancy provided throughout the soaks, released the pressure from her spine and rejuvenated her entire body. And now, more than 20 years later, she is just fine. The water therapy helped her to regain her strength physically, and also served to help her regain her mental strength as well.
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