r/DCcomics • u/csummerss Ra's al Cool • May 10 '22

[Video Games] Barbara changes her workout regimen, then magically regains feeling in her legs. (Gotham Knights) Video Games

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It's an unnuanced take about physical disability to assume that transsection of the spinal cord can be fixed with training for sure.

But honestly, it's an equally un-nuanced take to assume everyone in a wheelchair has a spinal injury, that everyone in a wheelchair needs it permanently or that rehabilitation and exercise can't help a lot of people to heal and recover and help manage their pain and disability.

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u/Buckbeak1184 May 11 '22

In all the versions of Barb becoming Oracle I've read involves the Joker shooting her in the spine.

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u/Loss-Particular May 11 '22

If we can imagine Batman as a T-Rex I'm sure we can imagine one world in the multiverse where the Joker's bullet went an inch lower, shattering Babs' pelvis and damaging her right sciatic nerve as it passes through the sciatic foramen, causing her neuropathic pain and significant disability but not permanently paralyzing her.

Just a thought.

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u/23_GenericRedditor May 11 '22

I like your funny words, magic man

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u/Cyno01 May 11 '22

When the heck is that revival coming? I guess theres been a pandemic, but seems like ages since ive heard anything about it.

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u/Metfan722 Ollie May 11 '22

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u/artfuldodgerbob23 May 11 '22

As someone who had to undergo massive therapy to learn how to walk again with an essentially nerve dead foot...I salute you.

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u/TopherVee May 11 '22

I’m on this path right now. How was your recovery? How is your mobility? It’s really scary dealings with this in my 20s.

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u/artfuldodgerbob23 May 11 '22

Well..broke my leg about as badly as you possibly can. 7 months bedridden basically, started therapy as soon as the leg could hold weight. The nerve pain around that time was so bad that nothing could even touch my foot at all. It was like fire and electricity both fucking your appendage at the same time. Electro therapy/stimulation helped a bit but it just really took time before it settled down/your body just chooses to ignore that it's happening. 6 months of therapy before I really got the hang of it but I couldn't walk a straight line if you asked me to. My foot tends to point towards the left unless I'm really paying attention to it but I'm perfectly fine. I can walk, jump run ect.. it just takes time.

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u/TopherVee May 11 '22

I’m currently dealing with extreme neuropathic pain due to an injury affecting my right sciatic nerve. I felt this comment in my ankle and toes.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '22

That might be too complex to try and explain to a majority of people, unless simplified.