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November 16, 2003
"Superman" Reeve Breathes Free

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Christopher Reeve

Yahoo! News:

He may no longer be the Man of Steel, but Christopher Reeve is continuing his super recovery.

In a 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters airing Friday, Reeve demonstrates how he is now breathing on his on for the first time since becoming paralyzed from the neck down in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995.

Back in February, Reeve became just the third person in the United States to undergo an experimental procedure called diaphragm pacing via laparoscopy.

The procedure, performed at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, involves threading tiny wires through small incisions in the diaphragm and connecting electrodes to an external control box, worn on the body. At 12 times a minute (normal breathing rate) a mild current stimulates the diaphragm muscle, making it contract and suck air into the lungs. Reeve was considered an ideal patient for the experimental device because his phrenic nerves were not injured in the accident.

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