It Came From the Web! » medical http://www.icftw.com Finding the weird, before it finds you! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:45:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Paraplegic Walks After Spider Bite http://www.icftw.com/2009/03/16/paraplegic-walks-after-spider-bite/ http://www.icftw.com/2009/03/16/paraplegic-walks-after-spider-bite/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:56:35 +0000 admin http://www.icftw.com/?p=265 Brown Recluse
After being confied to a wheel chair for 20 years, a California man is walking again.  According to the report the man was bitten by a Brown Recluse and as a result needed to be hospitalized.  After being admitted a nurse noticed a spasm in his leg, upon further testing it was reviled that he had regained some feeling in his legs. 

The article indicates that he was walking 5 days later, it also says that he needed 8 months of rehab.  Its not clear if he needed the rehab to help rebuild his leg muscles or if it was because of the bite itself.  The venom of the Brown Recluse is powerful and can commonly cause the flesh around the bite to die, often leaving deep scars.

Source: ABC13, Wikipedia

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