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Posted 16 November 2005 - 10:46 AM

Damaged spine allows signals to brain

Brains of people with a spinal cord injury can respond to signals from their lower limbs during exercise, surprising new research suggests.

This finding, although preliminary, suggests that their spinal cords may not be as damaged as doctors think.

Alternatively, patients' brains could be responding to a change in blood flow while exercising.
Either way this world-first research suggests that rehabilitation could one day lead to improved function for people with injured spinal cords.


More: http://abc.net.au/science/news/health/Heal...ish_1503379.htm
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Posted 15 July 2008 - 04:30 PM

"When your cord is broken your brain changes," he says. "The part of the brain that runs the legs doesn't think the legs exist anymore so [brain cells] get redistributed to other things."

Thats great! break your spinal cord and grow wiser... clever man lol
no, seriously, is this broadly accepted knowledge?
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Posted 17 July 2008 - 01:34 AM

It's about time this stuff started to get some traction in medical literature.
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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:23 PM

that is good news. i ride a fes bike twice a week. i wish it could be more but it's a 3 hour round trip. i'm trying to get one for home, we'll see. i've noticed some return in my abs. mabye if i could do it every day i could see more return.
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