MIRACLE disable man stand up and walk with atrophied leg

In town library (in medical section..... :) ) there is a copy of "REMARKABLE RECOVERY: what the extraordinary healings tell us about getting well" (Hirshberg Barash). In a study break I read a chapter of this book and i found a strange story.....

Leo Perras was paraplegic for twenty years (for an accident) and, during a rev. Ralph Diorio's Show, he stood up and abled to walk again.
When I read this immediatly I thought: "the man had an histeric illness or probably exist a natural explanation for this event"..... After I continued to read and I saw that there was the doctor's declaration. I copy here:

Quote:

Neurologically, his doctor tolf him, nothing in his condition had changed. He still had no reflexes. “His muscles are totally wasted. His calves are the size of my wrist. Why he is waking I don’t know” said Dr. Mitch Tenerowicz, who had been treating Perras for ten years. Leo’s limbs, he noted, had been “so emaciated, that, anatomically, they shouldn’t have been strong enough to support him; here was a man who hadn’t walked in twenty years”

If the muscles were wasted, how did he walk?

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