User blog comment:AlexanderWiki2002/User blog:Alderjack the Treescamp/Redwall Books Ranked Worst To Best/@comment-3462718-20170412115839

Regarding Loamhedge, a lot of people miss two important points about it. Number one, Martha clearly has Conversion Disorder, sometimes called Psychosomatic paralysis. Quite a real and not uncommon condition, you should research it - it's paralysis caused by trauma of a mental type, in an otherwise healthy individual. The prognosis is wildly varied depending on the individual and there have been cases of it spontaneously clearing up. Furthermore, if Bragoon and Saro and the three young creatures hadn't gone on the mission, they would have been fighting at Redwall instead of Martha and the Abbot (They've had told them to stay back. What warrior allows a crippled person or an Abbot to fight in their place?) and Martha would never have been in the position to override the mental block causing her Conversion disorder.