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JFK had intense back pain, and it may have helped kill him
Fox News ^ | By Jenn Gidman

Posted on 11/22/2017 8:05:57 PM PST by sparklite2

Spinal neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas Pait assembled research on JFK's lumbar woes—which stretch back to his football-playing days at Harvard and led him to undergo four "largely unsuccessful surgeries"—into a paper recently published in the Journal of Neurosurgery.

In it, he ties JFK's death to a possible inability to duck down after Oswald's first bullet, all because he was wearing a stiff, "tightly laced" back brace with a figure-eight Ace bandage wrapped around it that kept him locked in an upright position.

"If you have that brace all the way up your chest, above your nipples, and real tight, are you going to be able to bend forward?" Pait notes.

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To: sparklite2

No, he would be either dead or just brain dead, regardless of his spine conditions.


41 posted on 11/23/2017 5:32:14 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: sparklite2

Just think, boys and girls: fifty years from now, people will still be mooning over the Obamas and the Clintons, insisting they were railroaded.


42 posted on 11/23/2017 6:07:19 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: montag813

I guess it depends at what level of the spine the surgery was performed.

I had a three-level cervical fusion several years ago (anterior discectomy) and the result was very successful. I’ve always been a very active guy, so the surgery was great for me. The only thing I couldn’t do after the surgery that I did before the surgery was play golf, as the torque on the cervical spine when swinging would have been a problem.

I’m going on 67 now, and I’m still active, but have necessarily slowed down because of age.


43 posted on 11/23/2017 6:40:43 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: sparklite2

I have a neurosurgeon friend who says, “Most problems in neurosurgery can be avoided by sleeping with your own wife.”
JFK might have benefitted from this.


44 posted on 11/23/2017 6:50:21 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: sparklite2

JFK never played football for Harvard. Teddy did - second string tight end.


45 posted on 11/23/2017 7:08:31 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
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To: Pelham
The first bullet hit him at the base of his neck and exited through his throat. He should have been able to survive that wound.

I've seen a documentary where a doctor asserted that the first shot would have been fatal alone. I don't remember the reasoning, only the conclusion. Of course, the head shot made the conclusion moot.

46 posted on 11/23/2017 7:18:12 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: cynwoody

“I think that one has been floating around like a turd in a toilet, for decades too.”

“My turds have gravitas.They sink to the bottom.”
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If your turds are floaters your fat intake is too high.


47 posted on 11/23/2017 8:38:11 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: sparklite2

NO it was JFK ignoring Secret Service advice to put the bullet-proof bubble on the Presidential limo that got him killed in Dallas - NOT his back brace!


48 posted on 11/23/2017 9:45:22 AM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertiwsers)
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To: CommerceComet

It didn’t hit anything vital. Went through soft tissue. No arteries, organs or spinal cord. The worst damage was to the trachea.


49 posted on 11/23/2017 12:16:18 PM PST by Pelham
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To: sparklite2

No-one in the limo ducked down after the first bullet


50 posted on 11/23/2017 6:08:35 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (don't forget to mouse your sisterhooks)
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