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A British woman who suffered a spinal injury that left her paralysed for a year is taking advantage of her traumatic experience to help her write a fiction novel.

Crime writer Caro Ramsay's boredom while she recovered from her spinal injury served as inspiration for her first two novels.

Speaking to the Sun, she explained that she also gets ideas from patients that arrive at her osteopathy practice in Scotland.

She noted: "I started scribbling notes about a girl who was in a hospital bed, paralysed, blind and unable to communicate after someone threw acid in her face.

"I ended up writing 250,000 words which became my first two books, Absolution and Singing To The Dead."

Recent research published in the September issue of the journal Shock suggests that females may cope with traumatic injury better than males.

Traumatic shock can include car accidents, falls or injury that causes bleeding.

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