Have you all seen this in todays The Today Show Paralyzed rats walk again

Sept. 21: Researchers at UCLA and the University of Zurich have enabled paralyzed lab rats to walk again. NBC’s chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, discusses what this could mean for patients with spinal cord injuries.


They probably will start using this within a few years i want to be a lab rat lol...

I heard the news this morning. I think I can run like that rats in the future...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1780...ats-sprint.html

yeah, we will walk again oneday, never loose hope. "everything is possible."

It might never get anyone walking,,, but stimulating movement could certainly help get the circulation going down there.

That would almost certainly help with things like the healing of ulcers,, in fact . maybe the lessening of the occurances. Burning a few extra calories would also help keep the weight down ( that would be a plus for me).

Sounds like FES on steroids,,,, I like it.
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Is it really walking again or just a really fancy taser making you walk?

screw walking...i just want some sexual functions back...jk jk

Any research is good research in my eyes....

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For me:

Hands - then

The problem is not just starting nerve cell growth.
It's also turning the growth off.
Remember that rat with a cancerous growth and death.
The spinal chord is a complex highway of individual nerve strands transmitting continuous signals in bothdirections simualtaniously all the time.
I don't evn know if a single strand links a individual end with a individual group of brain cells.
I have reason to believe that signals can start at the strand ending and then proceed to it's associated brain cell group randomaly up the chord, in much the same way as in the brain the cells randomly comunicate.
That would mean a change of tought to plugs and wires as in optical wiring.
Just a thought......not a killjoy

hello I am new to this forum and really am in need for some help. My brother 55 who is a wonderful man, philosopher and music composer had a misfortunate sitaution. He has, or had, at this point we are unsure to be honest, muscular dystony (generalized rigidity). After developing broncoaspiration pneumonia and recuperating, he was given salbutamol, for him to be able to breathe better, which did not react favorably in his system. His muscles became totally weak and therefore was not able to breathe nor eat properly. They gave him salbutamol AGAIN believe it or not and almost lost his life to a heart failure and respiratory arrest. He is now systemically just fine, his heart is in perfect condition, his intestines are fine, kidneys are fine as well, BUT... now has a tracheostomy with mechanical ventilation, a gaseostromy and has lost ALL muscle mass in his body and therefore is completely weak. But does have transmission through his nerves and is slowly being able to move little by littel. My question is ,do you feel there is hope that he WILL regain muscle mass and do you feel he will EVER be able to breathe without the ventilator again? There is really no paralysis but yes atrophy. Please tell me what I can do?

He really needs to move everyday as much as he can. If he feels any burning sensation when he moves he needs to increase that sensation by moving more. Everything he does needs to be an excersise. Even breathing. Instead of breathing normally, he should take deep breath's as much as he can untill he cant do it any longer. When he gains his strength back from breathing heavily, he should start over. Doing it everyday untill he starts to get results. Which in my opinion he will definatly get. It might take months of doing the same thing everyday, but what other choice does he have? The same thing goes for any other movement he has. If it functions, it needs to be excersised. Excersised with full effort untill he starts to see improvement. Hope this helps.

-j0hnny

sex ohh yea lol....