Mark,
I really enjoyed this posting - a humourous moment in an otherwise
boring day!!!!
Thanks,
Erica
P.T. Canada
Subject: Re: remote controls for tissue repair
From: Matt McEwan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
> Didn't get me pal,
>
> Date of post duly noted, good try!
>
> At 11:59 1/04/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >>>>
> Dear all, Can anyone help me in the search for
> information about the use of T.V. remote control units to
> speed up tissue repair? All I have, so far, is a
> photocopied journal article from an Italian journal
> (unfortunately, the journal name isn't anywhere to be
> seen). The article is entitled " RAI Uno o canale 5,
> dipende dall' articolazione". The basic gist of the article
> is that the staff on an orthopaedic ward in a hospital in
> Padua noticed that some of the patients seemed to heal
> a lot quicker than others. Looking into it more deeply,
> they started to find that those patients who were healing
> faster than normal seemed to be those who had hired
> private TVs. On further investigation, there seemed to
> be differences between those that held the remote
> controls in their ipsi-lateral side and those holding them
> in the contralateral side (in relation to their injuries).
> Further investigations seemed to show that selecting
> different channels was more (or less) suited to different
> joints (e.g. 'RAI Uno' was best for knees, whilst 'Canale
> 5' was best for hips). I've done a literature search but
> can't find anything else by the author (Primo Aprile,
> Professor of Orthopaedics at Padua University). Does
> anyone out there know of further research? My real
> interest is how the channel bands should be selected in
> this country (North West of England) and which chanell
> would be best suited to a stubborn elbow that isn't
> responding to anything I've done so far (symptoms are
> reported as "like I've just banged my 'funny bone' but
> with it never easing". All replies gratefully accepted!
> Mark Poulter.
>
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