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Stryker frame

Written by Sean on Tuesday, January 24, 2006

As I was laying down on the physiotherapist’s table this morning, I wondered if that particular experience may be remotely related to one I’ve wanted for a long time. I’ve wanted to be in a Stryker frame (see photo of a Stryker frame), beware it’s in Dutch) for a while. And for a few minutes, as I lay there, face down, unable to do anything else, I pondered that it may be somewhat similar.

Well, to be honest, I’m not sure they still use those frames in the treatment of SCI anymore. I suspect that the technology to handle to relief of pressure has come a long way and that apparatus isn’t really necessary anymore.

And to be honest even more, I know that I was fooling myself by thinking this might be similar. But there I was, face down on a narrow "bed" that had an opening fo my nose/eyes/face wasn’t squashed. I couldn’t do a thing, couldn’t move (because I had about a dozen acupuncture needles in my shoulder and back!). I was in a cubicle separated only by curtain from the activity in the other cubicle. There was a faint "medical" smell around.

The power of imagination is quite amazing at times. I let myself be transported by this faint touch into the "what ifs". Fully aware that there is probably as much relation between my experience and that of being in a Stryker frame as there is between driving a Lamborghini or being on a push-bike. Both have wheels, both allow you to go from point A to point B, but that’s about the extent of it!

No matter, it wasn’t a bad experience at all.