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SPINAL CORD INJURIES

PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURIES GET FIT WITH ELECTRICAL STIMULATION ROWER

A rowing machine that uses electrical stimulation is helping people with spinal cord injuries to get in shape.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/health/national/20...electrical.html

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The advances in artificial limbs is simply amazing. I think technology not only helps current amputees, but moves forward to the place in time when we will be creating limbs for people that are attached to the nervous system so that they can feel on their artificial limb and it will behave closer to that of a real limb. Cybernetics may actually be closer to a reality than ever before. I love reading about these new advances, they give me hope for other people of the future.

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Spinal advance gets rats running

Hopes that people with spinal injuries could one day regain leg movement have been raised by research in rats. Ref. Source 3

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This will be a great accomplishment for science and a definite miracle for those who cannot walk or move about because of a spinal cord injury.

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Scientists pinpoint molecular signal that drives and enables spinal cord repair

Researchers have identified a molecular signal, known as 'neuregulin-1,' which drives and enables the spinal cord's natural capacity for repair after injury. Ref. Source 6e.

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Researchers restore breathing, partial forelimb function in rats with spinal cord injuries. Millions of people worldwide are living with chronic spinal cord injuries, with 250,000 to 500,000 new cases each year -- most from vehicle crashes or falls. The most severe spinal cord injuries completely paralyze their victims and more than half impair a person's ability to breathe. Now, a breakthrough study has demonstrated, in animal models of chronic injury, that long-term, devastating effects of spinal cord trauma on breathing and limb function may be reversible. Source 7p.

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That's incredible news. I've been looking out for the day when we can help people with paralysis to be restored to full function.