Reminds me of Eddie Murphy in Trading Places where the police "help" him to discover that he is not a double amputee, but in fact has legs!

For two and a half years, I thought I needed a hip replacement because of the debilitating pain making it difficult to walk. When I finally told my doctor, she said my hips fine and that it was my back. Being on disability for other reasons, I could not afford the surgery, nor was I inclined to take the risk of a bad outcome. Orthopedic surgery is still in the stone age as far as I am concerned. Due to the increased dose of a medication I was taking, I started sleeping as much as 16 hours a day. Six months later, the hip pain was gone and it only returns temporarily if I over exert. Perhaps all she needed was adequate rest for her spine to heal. The difference between a doctor and a scientist is that the more a doctor knows, the bigger his ego gets and with the scientist, the more he knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. To be fair, this does not apply to all members of either field. But given the limited understanding in the orthopedic field, I have found this to be especially true with them, in my experience. No one is taking a knife to my back muscles in the name of relieving their spasms. That just seems common sense to me. My daughter suggested cortisone shots, which is the least invasive and damaging treatment.

Given that they either don't know or don't specify what kind of damage she actually had, I would guess her paralysis wasn't due to damage at all, but something being out of place or badly pinched. When that other cyclist nailed her, it knocked the pinched nerves loose and now she can feel again. Frankly, I think the doctors should be embarrassed, not skeptical!

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“I would have to also say that there’s a lot in medicine that we don’t know and a lot we have yet to learn.”

AMEN to that.

“I have never heard of a case of damage to the spinal cord where someone lost feeling and strength in their legs and then had a second accident that gave them feeling back,” said Dr. Michael Boninger, professor and chair of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the rehabilitation institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “The fundamental truth is that accidents don’t cause damaged nerve cells to regenerate.”

Well, Dr. God, since you've never heard of it, then it must not be true and she's lying about not being paralyzed. She's just pretending to walk. Damned fakers.

This is probably one of those one in a million low propability events that they couldnt duplicate if they tried. The don't understand why she lost feeling in her legs to begin with, so it will never be clear exactlty what made it come back.

Imagine if they tried to develop this into a treatment for paraplegics...

"OK, lay him in the middle of the street. When I fire the starter pistol, tell the man on the bike to start peddling like he has never peddled before! And make sure he gets his aim straight - I don't want to have to do this again!!!"

(Man on bike starts down the hill, peddling his heart out...)

Boom!!!

(Man on bike falls off face first, breaking his back and ends up as a quadraplegic. However, the paraplegic makes a full recovery.)

"Hmmmmm...were gonna need a bigger bike...and a new cyclist. When you fax the clinical trial stuff into the FDA, how about we just forget about this part? Alright???"

I can't say anything about nerves but I do know first hand how a new trama can help heal an old injury. I was in a car accident that broke my collar bone. After going about 6 months of it not healing my doctor was talking about surgery to fix it. Then I was involved in another accident(both not my fault btw). This second accident basically rebroke what ever healing had happened and my collar bone healed up in a matter of weeks. As I see it my body had decided that my broken collar bone no longer needed anymore healing and it was until it got new broken signals from it that started to pay attention to it again.

Could this not be simular to what happened to her. Maybe her body could have healed her injury all along but it just didn't see it as an injury, for what ever reason. Then after the second trama it basically started to pay attention to that location again, started to heal both the new and the old injury. I should think that the doctors would be most interested in her story for this reason. Try to find out exactly how it happened. Maybe even see if there are methods that could be made to reboot the healing process after it gets derailed.

Basically, these skeptical doctors of medicines are stating the obvious, they really, really don't know. Trained in the traditional AMA way of doctoring, they follow devout methods a predetermined religion as far as "medical science" is preached, and of course anything out of context with that prescribed theology of modern medicine is unsound and heretic.

God forbid that if they "did" have anything in the form of massive rounds of tests, medical reports and follow ups, they could be any more alert to the situation as they are now, twiddling their highly educated thumbs while pronouncing skeptic reviews of a person who is now not only walking around, but involved in competitive sports.

In an age where common pill pushers sit you in their office for high dollar conferences sharing their words of wit and wisdom at ungodly rates, and act as if they are glorified know it alls, while prescribing pharms out the ass for ailments you didn't even know you had, and then making appointments for you for rounds of tests you didn't even know you needed, its amazing our mortality rate isn't higher than it is.

Now they say this woman isn't cured by a secondary accident?

Hmmm, wonder how many of them attend a church where there mediator to God pats them smiling on the back and asks of family, and talks of how their lord raised from the dead, healed leprosy and withered hands, and they beleive it as a fact?

Then leave it to the pharmaceutical companies to allocate, or rather ransom your life away with their profit important pertinent meds, and you can claim a life of health, as they prescribe it and doll it out.

I am glad we have these zealots in our midst to help us along on our path of health and wealth (theirs).

It's a Festivus miracle!

The body is a miraculous thing that nobody really understands. I say good for her! This is truly a great story no matter what the Doctor's say.

One word: Chiropractor.

The injured athlete had a constriction of the spinal canal, thus rendering too little space for even a slightly compromised spinal cord to manage. The second accident relieved the pressure on the nerve(s), and boom, a miracle.

The way that the science of chiropracting came to be, is that there was a deaf man working at a fish market. Because he was deaf, he was unaware that a man was trying to get his attention. That man threw a frozen fish at the back of the deaf man, as an attention-getter. Well, it got the man's attention, as he instantly was able to hear again. Another miracle? No.

In 1998, I was injured in the lower lumbar region, an area that was compromised by a congenital constriction of my spinal canal. I could no longer walk. All that mainstream doctors could do was pills, and more pills. I was numb. Literally. In desperation, I went to a friends chiropractor. And I had no faith whatsoever in chiropractors--voodoo healing in my ignorance. After about 3-weeks time, I could walk again. The pain was lowered to "tolerable." I am supported now with monthly visits to get "stretched."

Whatever works. But I wish that the injured athlete had taken sooner, that leap of faith into non-mainstream medicine. That was too long a time to be missing out on life. But, good luck to her recovery.

To Kristin: I also broke my collar bone into three pieces. The small piece in the middle healed at a 90 degree angle to the other two pieces. After 20 years it is still a lump of bones but it has never bothered me. Just saying it's funny how the body heals.

As for chiropractors, well, I guess that works for some people such as "aliveinsd", but it only messed me up. I never had a problem with my neck until my first chiropractic adjustment, then I woke up the next morning with vertigo, which I had NEVER had before. I had vertigo for three straight months before it let up, and I have had it on and off since then along with neck pain and migraines. That was twenty years ago and the only relief I can get is to keep going back to have my neck readjusted. I have since learned that when the neck is adjusted like that, the tendons get stretched out and can no longer adequately support the vertebrae because tendons are not flexible like rubber bands, so in my case the neck kinks with the top vertebra turning to one side and a middle vertebra turning the opposite way; this is what causes the vertigo because it puts pressure on nerves that affect the inner ears. I think the only cure for this is to have surgery to fuse the vertebrae together, which I am not going to do until I am suffering excruciatingly from it, and I hope that doesn't happen until much, much later in my life. Consequently, I also have suffered a snapped tendon in my right foot shortly after my back was adjusted at a later appointment and it caused a tight pull on that tendon. Now, in addition to a problem neck, the arch in my right foot is lower than the arch in my left foot, and that creates pressure on my left hip joint and is painful.

I really didn't need to see a chiropractor in the first place. I went because I was having some health problems and my mother suggested that maybe I had some pinched nerves and recommended that I go to her chiropractor. She was going because she had a tailbone injury years ago that was giving her some pain and the adjustments seem to help alleviate it, of course only to have to continue to go back. And that's the other thing about chiropractics -- once you have an adjustment, you have to keep going back for more adjustments for the rest of your life because the adjustments are not permanent, and in fact can cause more problems because it loosens up the places where the bone and disc meet, thereby allowing for future misalignments.

Well, at least nobody's claiming that Jesus did it! lol

MyCommon: Do not use chiropractors for such thin, fragile, areas as the cervical spine. In your case, the best course of action is to use a traction device for the home. They fit over a door, cradling your head. Some small amount of water, 2-3-lbs., is filled into an opposing weight plastic bag. 15-minutes on, and 15-minutes off. Apply ice when resting. I haven't had luck with muscle relaxers, such as cyclobenzeprine in neck injury--just adds to the problem. Do the self-traction, and under the guidance of your doctor. Do not make your own, please. Again, don't be reckless when your neck is concerned. You could end up far worse. We've all heard the term, "Pain in the neck." Nobody wants one.

Cvilleguy: I don't recommend back-handed talk about Jesus Christ. You may need him one day. Of course, you might be speaking of the "Jesus's" or "Angels," the ones that belong in your local clink. (That's a Border-State joke, son)

I was injured in an accident when I fell on my tail on a block of ice in Alaska. For 10 years after, I would experience pain if I sat, stood, or lay in a single position for more than a short time. Movement was sometimes so painful I had to stop while the pain went away. Occasionally, I would lose feeling and control on my entire left side. If I was carrying somethin, it would fall out of my grip, and I wouldn't feel it happen. I fell on my side several times when the feeling went out like that. I went to doctors and they wanted to cut my back open. Like the earlier poster indicated, I wouldn't let any of those witch docters near my spine with a knife. One day I had a long drive and stopped at a motel for the night. All they had in the boonies there was a room with a cold waterbed. All night long, I could hear my joints popping from all over my lower back. I've never had another moment of that pain and it's been 30 years.

Something was pinched and out of line in my back and I'm sure this is what happened to her.

Ummmm - ok... If her legs were so non-functional that she was using her hands to pedal, then how are they in good enough shape to joing a professional bike team? Something smells like old fish in this story.

Actually AliveinSD - the "clink" was a notorious prison in England from around 860AD to 1780 controlled by the bishop of Winchester. All prisons in England are referred to as the clink these days.

This is the kind of story I love to hear. So what if the medical field has never heard of such a thing. There are lots of things that have never been heard of, that eventually come to light. Her spine was not severed, it was injured.

After the 2nd car accident, she began to get some feeling/tingling in her legs. It took an entire YEAR for her to be able to walk after the 2nd accident, and most likely she continued some type of physical therapy for a time after that. I BELIEVE it can happen. There are plenty of unexplainable (Miracles?) occurrences that happen daily. Just because we cannot explain any given phenomenon only tells me that we don't yet posses the knowledge to give an explanation.

I suspect her paralysis was more "hysterical", meaning it had manifested itself in her mind and there was no actual physical damage. To have surgery on an ankle, and then end up paraplegic would be nearly impossible. The fact that it became worse with a car accident may have triggered another event in her mind, again without damage to the spinal cord. Perhaps she realized she needed out of the problem she had created, and this new "trauma" allowed this to happen, causing a miracle cure.

Sono - as someone who has direct dealings with neurologists about Multiple Sclerosis (which affects NERVES) I can definitely tell you they are fairly clueless about their own profession and what is and is not possible.

They have a great deal of book knowledge, but when it comes to things outside the book - they take a complete disbelief attitude, rather than a curious "id like to find out what merrit this has" attitude.

As a doctor in this article points out, there's a ton they truly do not know about our bodies and how things work...or dont work for that matter.

Simply because we BELIEVE nerve endings cant "magically regenerate" doesnt mean they cant, or thats even what they have to do...in order to work again, or that they were damaged beyond repair in the first place.

Science is very short on reality, and very tall on assumptions...I just think you should stop assuming the current answers we have for everything, are the correct ones...time and time again science proves it's previous assumptions were simply flat out wrong.

J100 - it's always easy to call people liars when we cant quite understand whats happening.

there's a ton of people afflicted with nerve/neurological distress...and im thankful most of us and the science community, dont have your attitude.

one day you're going to have pain you cant explain and neither can the doctors, I hope everyone doesnt regard you as a faker...simply because they cant SEE where the pain is or understand how it feels, and science cant find anything on tests or xrays.

When you reach that moment, you'll come to feel sorry for all the times you thought people were "faking it".

I guess, thankfully for my wife...her eye stops moving, and her face droops...otherwise she'd just be "making it all up"...

There is a great deal of misconceptions going on here. Nerves are just as capable at regenerating as any other cells in the body. In cell culture they grow happily and divide often. In the body their growth is tightly regulated, but they do grow and divide. That regulation is what keeps them from reconnecting across a spinal injury. A scar forms in the spine and that scar says "do not grow here." Manipulating this scar and the signals it produces has been and continues to be a major focus of research. Every year people with spinal injuries are saved from paralysis thanks to the fruits of this research. People walk again thanks to this knowledge base.

I think it is a little insulting to the hard working scientists who have made this possible when people say things like "science doesn't know anything" or "science is always wrong." Especially when most of the misinformation is in the public sphere. The fact is that every spinal injury is different and the science of healing them is cutting edge - by necessity there will be many assumptions that need to be made. True, there still are some doctors out there who are not current in their knowledge who parrot older ideas about the nervous system, but any neurologist worth their salary should know better.

Her healing is no miracle. It was a chance re-injury that reorganized the cellular makeup of her spinal scar, allowing nerve growth. It's a million to one event. Understanding exactly how this occurred will be very interesting and may lead to the ability to heal some forms of paralysis.

Jessica,

I won't pretend to know as much as you do, because it sounds like you know everything. However, I do take exception to you interpreting my response to calling people liars. A hysterical reaction is a very real reaction, especially to the patient suffering from it. However, it is a reaction that is in the mind, and is not truly a physical problem. There are problems with this young women's miracle recovery on several levels. Nerves do regenerate, no doubt about it. However, this process takes time. It is generally accepted that they regenerate (heal) at the rate of an inch per month. Her nerves are not going to regenerate in the few days that are mentioned in this article. If her muscles had truly been denervated (without nerve supply) for 14 years, they would have deteriorated to the point that there would be mostly fibrous tissue and little muscle tissue remaining - making the probability that she could return to cycling on a competitive level essentially nil. Because her legs had been unable to bear weight for those 14 years, I suspect her bones would be very weak and again make it impossible to function at the level required for competitive cycling. There are multiple problems with this story when objectively considered.

Contrary to your statement, science is long on reality and very short on assumption. To be considered true, or valid, or real (or whatever term you would like to use) in the scientific world (of which medicine is part of), it has to be proven. In medicine, it is done through scientific study that holds up to peer review. We do not guess, at least without some basis on which to form an educated guess upon. You understand, I suppose, because of your knowledge of MS. A truly devastating disease of the of the nerves. Sadly they do not regenerate, and there is proof of the disease through medical imaging and testing. I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Do I doubt this young woman was paralyzed? No, absolutely not. Do I doubt she had nerve damage causing paraplegia? Yes, absolutely.

Jessica-1170252 - I'm not sure if j100 was implying that she's a liar. I think what they meant was that maybe her paralysis was triggered by something psychological rather than physical nerve damage - like how some amnesiacs suffer memory loss due to repressing traumatic memories - and other amnesiacs have actually had physical brain damage...

Well said, Radagast!

Re the hysteria theory--wouldn't an MRI have previously confirmed the physical nature of the original injury?

I must remind you all that it wasn't just the ankle operation. She also has another accident in which she injured her spine.

I have had problems over the years that I can see here.... I dislocated the joint where my hips join my backbone about 30 years ago.... Since that time I have had problems with my legs from the knee down not working or having any feelings at all.... This has really been a funny thing because every time it came back was due to another incedent with my being hit or shoved or bumped.... but as of now no one has found the cause and I know it is not mental.... So yes I can see how she could recover.... but if it is like my problem it can come back with another bump.

Jessica,

Science is very short on reality, and very tall on assumptions

Perfect!!!

If I may add, Science is very tall on egotism, and very short on humility

I love it whenever people use computers to get on the internet so they can talk about how science is out of touch with reality.

Maybe it's the inability to admit that when they don't know what really is going on, they suggest a psychiatrist. I have had abdominal pain all my life with many tests proving that it was all in my head.

After surgery last year, there were adhesions from guess what? They don't know. I also had an abscess in my head that did not show in plain x rays. I had headaches for years. I realize that doctors are not God and they don't know everything... that you have to push really hard and be very persistent. Who cares what the interviewed doctor thinks? Maybe they should have interviewed for a second opinion.

As they didn't have room to print the entire story of both incidents that occured and the surgery/treatment she received, and given one doctor said there is still much they don't know about the body, I would say the possibility does exist that the second incident did cause her to have feeling and be able to walk again. Since I am not a doctor, I won't say it did happen that way, nor am I willing to say it couldn't happen. I don't know the actual specifics of either incident, and there's not enough room here for them to print all of her medical records and post her x-rays, etc., and most of us wouldn't have time to go thru all of them, and probably wouldn't understand it all anyway. As far as the story here, and me not knowing the details, I will say I am glad she is able to walk again, and I choose not to criticize her, her doctors, or the doctors interviewed.

Legally, they cant. Doctor-patient confidentiality.

she prayed and received a Miracle from Jesus Christ. Period. even if you dont believe.

Never said she prayed... I've been to Lourdes as a child, hundreds of people in wheel chairs came in and out they came on their chairs... People always call miracles what they can't explain...

Taxpayer, that is the definition of a miracle...

Let's separate psychiatric & neurological conditions. They each provide a whole spectrum of diverse and varied diseases. There are a variety of neuro injuries that may have led to this. I wonder if she was ever screened for Multiple Sclerosis? It presents in a very similar fashion.

I question the original diagnosis, as well as the competency of the physicians. I was told by a Pediatrician that my second son would never walk due to a congenital hip trauma. He walked by the time he was 11 months old and went on to play baseball and hockey competitively.

And he was very animated about it too if I remember right.

lmao at you two. But seriously didn't joe have a leg transplant, then Bonnie tried to shot him cause he was having too much fun?

Joe also miraculously WALKED out of the O.R. into the waiting room, immediately after the transplant surgery. lol. Cause' that could totally happen. Ha ha.

This does not surprise me at all being a chiropractor. Definitley an interesting case, and have seen a patient with chronic back pain relieved after motorcycle accident (but a broken arm:). Of course what do I know, I'm not a real doctor:)

Still, more information would be useful. Just don't take a doctors word of what is and isn't possible. Any good doctor knows that results are more important then what we think should work or not work.

OK moderate PHD. OPEN YOUR MIND! Haven't you noticed the tons of important missing information? Stick that PHD degree of yours on the wall and free up your common sense!

Did anything in this story say nerves were severed? In your opinion how many ways could an ankle operation cause a patient to lose feeling in her legs? Last I heard these nerves run from top to bottom, not the other way.

How many circumstances are there in the real world that can result in a paralysis"? How many ways can this paralysis be resolved?

The most likely situation is one where this patient was mistreated, first by a bad application of a spinal anesthetic - too much, too hard, wrong concentration or substance into the wrong place, damaging the nerve and surrounding tissues and vessels. Then she was misdiagnosed, leaving her with a reversible condition WITHOUT the proper key to perform the reversal. It was only due to the actions of subsequent accidental events that such a key was finally provided for her. It surely wasn't provided by her doctors.

While earning a PHD in neuroscience necessitates a very focused field of study, it can't hurt to include other possibilities and influences past the structure and behavior of individual neurons. Any number of external interferences can affect a neuron exposed to such an influence. The best scientests and physicians are those who are able to see and apply simple mechanical principals to their biological subjects of study.

I'm waiting for the psychiatrists to check in with their theories that this was just a form of conversion hysteria.

There are more naysayers from the medical community than from persons with no medical degrees. NOTE that this woman WAS NOT CURED BY A DOCTOR when it's probable any number of doctors had ample opportunity to suggest new xray studies and tests that could have yielded the key to an earlier reversal of this woman's condition. They are all probably insisiting she was never paralyzed or was "overreacting" to her earlier injuries or surgery.

Don't be like them. Get ALL the possible facts and then think it over before you follow the most popular current theories - they change every 10-20 years anyway. You may not make as much money but you'll enjoy what you do every day.

Guess no one until jessix thought of the possibility that she got a nerve block of some kind for pain relief during the surgery. That does indeed carry the possibility of paralysis and other complications. I had a couple of lumbar punctures many years ago and had loss of feeling down a leg for a long time after them, and then had to have an epidural when my twins were born 8 years ago. I still have pain at that site sometimes and down that same leg.

Fact is we don't have all the details here by any means. It amazes me people have her diagnosed from reading a sketchy article online? And yes, doctors do fill in the blanks and decide what the diagnosis is when they don't know, or they automatically assign a psychological diagnosis at times.

We don't have all the facts, so why are people deciding what her original diagnosis was?????? jessix, you make good points. I have no idea why she was paralyzed and unless you have her medical report from her ankle surgery no one else here does either (not talking to you, jess, or moderate, but in general). How about we all keep an open mind? I was told after encephalitis in '87 that I probably wouldn't walk or get any feeling in my compromised right fingers, but I have run several 5k races since and I got pretty much all that feeling back a couple of years ago when I started doing energy work. And yes, it was documented that there was a medical reason for the loss of feeling before, so it wasn't conversion.

Really, we don't know what happened or didn't, and it is possible to be glad for her whatever the cause and resolution. She's walking and that is cool, and medical science may figure it out or not. Either way I am happy for her.

Do you have any more info? I hope you are not confusing the Terri Schiavo case with something else.

Aren't you brilliant!!!!? You just know that, eh? Wow...glad you aren't my doctor. You'd hear one symptom over the phone and diagnose me...good medicine there;)

Very plausible! I was initially assuming she had a severed spine since this is closer to my experience, but this makes more sense as it follows along with her history and it would be easier to heal in the manner described.

Good post!

Having had a rogue wave act as my "chiropractor" whilst surfing, I definitely think it's possible that the accident(s) shifted things around enough to cause healing. I have hereditary back issues, but I never saw a chiropractor until I was 17 (was going to a few years earlier and then came the surfing incident) and discovered upon my first adjustment that the entire right side of my body had been partially paralyzed because my nerves had been pinched for so long and had degenerated slightly. It wasn't enough degeneration that I noticed any sort of disablement, but it explained the little things like difficulty lifting heavy things, tripping over my right foot, imprecise movements with my hand and arm that caused me to miss targets and knock things over, etc. Believe me, I was shocked when my chiropractor pushed lightly on my outstretched arm and leg and I couldn't resist (but I could with my left side, where the nerves were functional). Many orthopedic surgeons and neurologists pooh-pooh chiropractic medicine, simply because it evolved in a time when there was no "proper" scientific backing for it. Fact is though, I can fully use my right side now, and whenever I start tripping over my foot again, a trip to the chiropractor fixes it. There is SO much about the spine that we do not know, and any doctor worth their salt should embrace this woman's story with a spirit of curiosity and investigation, rather than writing it off as impossible, although the evidence to the contrary is before their eyes.

Morton, Glad you had a wonderful recovery of your leg and can walk again!!

No matter how this happened to her, its still awesome and im happy for her, she gets to walk again after so many years of thinking she never could. What an amazing feeling that must be!!

Praise God!!

Morton, I had a surgery a few years back, and afterwards, I felt like I was bruised all over. I thought that I had been "dropped" off the table and shoveled back on, bruised and banged. However, after a little research, I discovered that anesthetic can cause the same feelings as it sometimes "pools" in different parts of the body. You may have had a similar instance in it "pooling" in your leg, and therefore, losing feeling. It's no less scary or unimportant, but it does happen. Glad to hear that you are back on your feet again. It took me several days to get over the soreness I experienced. We discover things everyday; I'm glad that we all have recovered.

Here's something to ponder: If a class of doctors graduate from college, and the first one with the highest grades is called Valedictorian, and the second one is called Salutatorian, what is the last one called? A: Doctor.

She may have been using some type of ROM (range of motion) therapy program to help prevent join contracture & muscle atrophy.

You keep it moving and keep them from atrophying. It is hard and unusual, but possible since we have no idea if she got intensive physical therapy or not.

I have a friend that has been in a wheel chair for about the same amount of time and his leg bones break really easy, no range of motion exercises are going to stop the bone loss.

You are a real prize...the nasty clueless person award winner. Congrats! Hope you feel better now.

IF that were true, then why won't god heal amputees? Does he ignore them all and just heal the diseases and disabilities that are "hidden" from plain site?

Miracles do happen, Maybe ??

Was there ever a document that said there was definate damage, And if so how was it determined there actually was damage and not just a guess?

I don't care really because in my opinion most drs are quacks, They guess at most things.And there are reasons I will share as to why I say that.

1) When my dad first got sick he had a dr look him in the eye and say, Sir you are taking in plenty of air but you're not letting but half of it back out what are you doing with it ? The fun part of that was the look on that doctors face when my Dad said: Hey doc put your ear down here ( pointing to his lower back ) And I will show you.

2) When I was 2 years old I had an accident and almost cut my right hand off because I fell on a mixing bowl, But in order to put it back together they operated and bunched all my cords and nerves together in center of my wrist, And they told my parents that I'd be lucky to be able to use the hand but at least I was able to keep it. 30 years later I fell off a step ladder and in trying to spin around to land safely I punched the cement floor and my hand swelled all the way to my elbow. And when I went to therapy they took ex-rays and said they could see nothing wrong with my hand or arm and I should only need a couple visits to take care of the problem.

So if you don't have any documentation of the injury don't assume that she wasn't injured Because as the saying goes It makes an ass out of you, And gives me reason to write things like this.