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A "fantastic mum" who suffered a freak spinal cord injury in a pole-dancing accident could have died had not been for the presence of a nurse friend, the woman's husband has said.

As it is, Debbie Plowman from Haxby in Yorkshire has been left paralysed and can now only communicate using a computer following the accident during a dancing class, the Daily Mail reports.

"This has been a heart-breaking experience for me and my two children," her husband Chris told the newspaper.

"Fortunately, one of her friends was a nurse and knew what to do, otherwise I think she would have died."

Although doctors are unsure how she will progress, hope of a recovery has come from her regaining some feeling in her neck, shoulder and abdomen.

Further cause for optimism may come from research carried out at New York University's Langone Medical Center that isolated a single gene that organises and controls neurons in the spinal cord.

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Posted by Timothy Walters
 

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