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[greybeard]

BBC news item

"Until now, such robust nerve regeneration has been impossible in the spinal cord" - Professor Oswald Steward



Added: Apologies to Izziwhizzi who posted this link already.

Edited by greybeard, 08 August 2010 - 09:21 PM.

[Izziwhizzi]

lol GB!! apology accepted!

I xx

[dangerousdave]

yawnnnnnnnn

[Izziwhizzi]

Yeah I know, read the same headlines 20+ years ago.

I'd stayed over at a mates after a drunken party with 14 others in the sitting room and me on my spongy mattress on the floor with us all pissed somehow getting me onto the floor. Next morning they showed me the Sunday papers with exactly the same regenerative type of headline. Their then unborn kids have now graduated at Uni, so I know its 20+ years, maybe 25+ years.

However I've always had a direct debit to ISRT on 1st Jan every year since then.

I'm one of the bunch who would just love their fingers and maybe possibly their arms back. Hey, walking, bowel and bladder issues are just too over rated :-)

[LeahC]

I thought the spinal cord of a mouse repaired by itself anyway?

[chrisarnold6]

Izziwhizzi, on 09 August 2010 - 05:30 PM, said:

Yeah I know, read the same headlines 20+ years ago.

I'd stayed over at a mates after a drunken party with 14 others in the sitting room and me on my spongy mattress on the floor with us all pissed somehow getting me onto the floor. Next morning they showed me the Sunday papers with exactly the same regenerative type of headline. Their then unborn kids have now graduated at Uni, so I know its 20+ years, maybe 25+ years.

However I've always had a direct debit to ISRT on 1st Jan every year since then.

I'm one of the bunch who would just love their fingers and maybe possibly their arms back. Hey, walking, bowel and bladder issues are just too over rated :-)

Know the feeling - heaven knows how much time and money has been expended on SCI. I can't help but wonder whether the folks doing the research need to think outside the box. Stem cells have restored sight to the blind, but the spinal cord is so complex. Thanks for reminding me how well off I am compared to others. I have no motor sensory function below the waist, but above everything seems to be normal. Moral is when you can't use your hands it's to blazes with bladders etc, whereas I say the next improvement for me would be control of bladder and bowels!

[sarcak]

Izziwhizzi, on 09 August 2010 - 05:30 PM, said:

Yeah I know, read the same headlines 20+ years ago.

I'd stayed over at a mates after a drunken party with 14 others in the sitting room and me on my spongy mattress on the floor with us all pissed somehow getting me onto the floor. Next morning they showed me the Sunday papers with exactly the same regenerative type of headline. Their then unborn kids have now graduated at Uni, so I know its 20+ years, maybe 25+ years.

However I've always had a direct debit to ISRT on 1st Jan every year since then.

I'm one of the bunch who would just love their fingers and maybe possibly their arms back. Hey, walking, bowel and bladder issues are just too over rated :-)

This study doesn't give us what we need but,

if the small steps are keep going ,may be someday we can reach where we want to go.

Edited by sarcak, 10 August 2010 - 04:29 PM.