Coaster ride gives patient extra thrill

Came across this story about a patient that gets helped out by a coaster.(sent it to news also)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/health/23ROLL.html?ex=1064894400&en=535c46ef5b34eb3a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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Army Rangers lead the way

Ah, the healing powers of roller coasters. Send this one to Ed Markey!

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Missing the Fallen:
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Uh...did you see what the doctor said toward the end? The ride could just as easily knock the lens out of place.

Not good news for folks with implanted lenses.

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"I go out at 3 o' clock for a quart of milk and come home to my son treating his body like an amusement park!" - Estelle Costanza

Getting hit in a bar room brawl produces an acceleration many times that of a coaster. That's what ripped the lens loose. Sneezing also produces a much greater acceleration to the head.

I suspect that at coaster could move a lens that has already been loosened as in this case, but I doubt that it would move a properly anchored lens. Otherwise people would not be able to keep their artificail lenses in place when they sneeze.

Good point. I'm surprised that the MD didn't think of that. Actually, I just read it again, and I think his sentence should have included "loose implanted lense" instead of just "implanted lense."

Yup, send it along with Jim's ammendment to Ed.

Could you imagine having a cat eye like that? Interesting that he was able to see fine with the pupil distorted like that. Then again, the pupil doesn't bend light; it's just an aperature. I'd say that he must have been sensitive to light, but the brain does tend to adapt to the input.

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"I go out at 3 o' clock for a quart of milk and come home to my son treating his body like an amusement park!" - Estelle Costanza
*** This post was edited by janfrederick 9/23/2003 6:01:16 PM ***