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>Antonia Barnhart wrote: >> <snip> last year I broke my >> leg and ankle and was told by DAN to wait an additional ten weeks (the leg took ten weeks to heal) before diving. They could not give me a reason why other than to say that "doubling the recovery time is conservative". No >> studies or statistics were offered to support their recommendation. The only thing that came to mind is that sometimes long bone fractures are associated with a fat embolus. Usually, this shows up soon after the injury. I can't imagine why DAN would have made that recommendation. Obviously it is "conservative" advice, but it's not supported by any evidence. What did your orthopedist say? Best regards, Barbara/San Francisco -----Original Message----- From: Jess Armantrout [mailto:armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:31 AM To: trey@ne*.co*; Antonia Barnhart Cc: quiglem@ib*.ne*; simonm@ho*.co*.za*; techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: Laser eye surgery speaking of Alert Diver, the Jan/Feb 2000 issue, page 37, claims Peter Bennett invented trimix diving. Trout -----Original Message----- From: Trey <trey@ne*.co*> To: Antonia Barnhart <abarnhart@ho*.co*> Cc: quiglem@ib*.ne* <quiglem@ib*.ne*>; simonm@ho*.co*.za* <simonm@ho*.co*.za*>; techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:37 AM Subject: Re: Laser eye surgery >This is all bullshit, I had knee surgury after Christmas ( 29th) and did >a deep cave dive with a 100 minute bottom time on New Year's day. I was >still on crutches when I did the dive. > >I dropped 225 pounds on my chest in a rep contest with some of the bros >at the gym ( blacked out) and broke those bones in the front, and dove >right through it with zero waiting time. Based on the fact that I had no >pain yesterday with considerably more weight, I did no damage by diving. > >Anything from DAN is one step below what you could learn from a parrot >or a minah bird. "Alert Diver" magazine is in fact the Bible of the Boat >Monkey, and I have yet to see anything out of these guys that does not >come off like Harvard Lampoon when you read it. > >The one good thing about diving and the human body is that diving makes >the body think it is suffering trauma, and that it is under attack. This >causes a huge cascade of defense and repair machanisms that end up being >the equivalant of about $1000 worth of geneticly engineered hormonal >drugs each dive. If you are well vascularized and perfused, this is like >taking a special DNA/RNA level treatment that lasts for days. Combine >that with the right deco and gas choices, and you end up ahead of where >you were before you dove. If you are not in good shape, it ends up >causing more problems and screwing you over completely, since the >defense actually sets up the dcs, and then you need the hormone releases >just to get back to even, which never happens due to the nature of the >damage caused by the shunting and angiogenisis around the shunts that >sets up. At least your fingernails get longer. > >Antonia Barnhart wrote: >> >> I would like to know why you recommend waiting three months after eye >> surgery before resuming diving. I am curious because last year I broke my >> leg and ankle and was told by DAN to wait an additional ten weeks (the leg >> took ten weeks to heal) before diving. They could not give me a reason why >> other than to say that "doubling the recovery time is conservative". No >> studies or statistics were offered to suport their recommendation. Needless >> to say, I have been taking diving medical advice with a huge grain of salt >> since, and I am interested on what you base this recommendation. >> Thanks for your time, >> Toni Barnhart >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin M. Quigley <quiglem@ib*.ne*> >> To: simonm@ho*.co*.za* <simonm@ho*.co*.za*>; >> techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> >> Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 4:35 PM >> Subject: Re: Laser eye surgery >> >> >You might be interested in the following URL: >> > >> >http://www.gulftel.com/~scubadoc/diveye.htm#Diving After Eye Surgery >> > >> >RK (radial keratotomy) is permanently disqualifying for Navy Divers - my >> >guess is that they'd feel the same about Lasik. >> > >> >Realistically, from a diving complication perspective, I'd wait 3 months >> >after surgery before resuming diving. >> > >> >(In addition to being an active cave diver, I'm a physician trained by >> >NOAA in Diving Medicine). >> > >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. 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