Testimony of Healing January 11, 1999 Issue

Shattered wrist restored to full usefulness

Theodore M. Holhut

Over three decades ago, while employed as a truck diesel mechanic, I was torquing cylinder head bolts. To achieve sufficient leverage, I was perched high up on the truck frame. Without warning, the ratchet gave way while at six hundred pounds of torque. When this occurred, I flew about thirty feet through the air, and hit the concrete floor, landing first on my left hand and then on my left hip. I looked at my wrist and saw it was not in its normal position, and the pain was overwhelming.

The function of my hand has been 100 percent normal.

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