A woman who has been paralysed from the waist down for 17 years is walking again after a chance two-minute session on a toning table.
Anne Bennett, 57, had consigned herself to a wheelchair after an accident carrying books caused a disc in her back to collapse and burst, crippling her with fibrosis.
But after losing weight and doing exercise, the pressure on her back from the toning table caused scar tissue to crack, allowing nerves to reconnect to her brain.
Her GP, Dr Mark Ferris, said: "Given the thickness of the fibrosis, which I saw in Anne's notes, it should never have happened. It is very rare. I have only seen it once in 25 years of doctoring."
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