There are currently ongoing operations on people with spinal cord injuries suffered from physical trauma to bridge 'disconnected' neural connective tissue to stimulate and try regain function of parts of the body through electric stimulation by the devices that are operated into these patients with, to my knowledge, varying results of success (although the successful once are absolutely fascinating to read about).
All this is still quite new and very experimental, and the ability to regain maximum recovery potential of the treatment is heavily dependent on the patient's ability to 'train' through physical therapy to regenerate these neural networks (not to mention the huge variation to, and severity of injuries) makes it a huge challenge for these people, but the reward of success is absolutely worth the try. Any thoughts on these types of operations you'd like to share?
I think there are some smaller scale and less invasive methods of treatment already existing to regain muscle function between limbs (or just general muscle function in certain areas of the body) through small electrical devices applied to the skin? I'd love to hear more on how far this type of research and development has resulted in these types of treatments and solutions, with examples if you know of them!
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Hi Felix, thanks for dropping by!
There are currently ongoing operations on people with spinal cord injuries suffered from physical trauma to bridge 'disconnected' neural connective tissue to stimulate and try regain function of parts of the body through electric stimulation by the devices that are operated into these patients with, to my knowledge, varying results of success (although the successful once are absolutely fascinating to read about).
All this is still quite new and very experimental, and the ability to regain maximum recovery potential of the treatment is heavily dependent on the patient's ability to 'train' through physical therapy to regenerate these neural networks (not to mention the huge variation to, and severity of injuries) makes it a huge challenge for these people, but the reward of success is absolutely worth the try. Any thoughts on these types of operations you'd like to share?
I think there are some smaller scale and less invasive methods of treatment already existing to regain muscle function between limbs (or just general muscle function in certain areas of the body) through small electrical devices applied to the skin? I'd love to hear more on how far this type of research and development has resulted in these types of treatments and solutions, with examples if you know of them!
Thanks in advance!
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