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Jens, the only one of us who has been MRI scanned and bone scanned extensively is me, and I show no necrosis of any kind and no spinal lesions. My brain appears like anyone else's that is my age. A British television show got the scans from my doctors, and when they complete the show it will have those in it for all to see. JJ is working on getting somebody to study the rest of us this way and in other ways, but this takes a lot of money. While I can pay for MRI and bone scans at $3000 a pop, I do not expect my team to do that. If I am not getting wacked, then I doubt anyone else is either, however. A good guy to ask about this is Alton Hall - he handles a lot of commercial diving cases where the divers were injured and turned up having PFO's or other defect, and the scans were used in those instances. There is also an ex Navy doc in Ft Lauderdale who runs a hyperbaric center who has a ton of data on this stuff. He is the one who showed me the spinal scans that compared to an MS patient on "commercial" 200 foot air divers. The fact is that "recreational" excesses in diving is what is more likely to cause problems: repeated air diving to 100 feet or more and excursions deeper on air, deco on air, and so forth. In other words, the uninitiated get the penalty. -----Original Message----- From: Jens Schamberger [mailto:schambrg@ch*.us*.ed*.au*] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:56 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: brain damage and divers Hi all, have there been similar investigations like the ones which started that thread on tech-divers? Did maybe the WKPP (as a well organized and large group of divers) take part in similar investigations? With such a large group of mixed gas divers one could possible draw valuable conclusions an effects diving has on the brain. Especially if the results could be compared to "normal" divers and non-divers. Someone could write a very nice PhD thesis about that. Regards, Jens. -- 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'.
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