This Accidental Treatment Is Reversing Paralysis
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- At the University of Louisville, researchers are using an epidural stimulator to allow patients with spinal cord injuries to stand and even walk again. Their accidental discovery of this treatment is changing our understanding of the spinal cord.
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I felt like the video had a takeaway of “appreciate the good things you’ve got”. Disagreeing with someone politically is a silly reason to stop watching inspirational videos about science and technology. But you do you.
I was wondering if injecting stem cells into the injury would help.
*Thanks Bloomberg.* Making a positive difference.
So basically, the neuron broke, tore off, seived. Then the strip off of electric current acted as a conductor from the bottom neuron to the top neuron. ( Thus , hopefully in time , regrowth)
Hmm..can we, take this and add some tissue in there to cultivate the "fibre optic" linked 🤔 ..or will we finally get a processor and software bio-code to allow smooth movement. ( The body does have 11110000 10101 one's and zeros moving through it already. )
If one were to stick the conductive strip, from the veins in the neck to the lower limbs, will motion be better? ( As we completing the circuit )
I'm sure in the near future, 5years, we'll get there.
The solution can be a second brain( device) operated with a walk switch. The brain will continue to control the upper body...while the device will just be programmed to get the legs walking. It's just sending many electric impulses to make many micro movements, that's all.
That "watermark" in the top right is offputting throughout the entire video. Peripherally look like an "x"..
Great content in the video otherwise, there are some real possibilities here!
Videos like this make me smile, this is what humanity should be focused on.
The population is large enough to focus on literally everything.
@@adamtak3128 hate and destruction?
Praise Cheesus
Yeah. This and not continuing to fuck up our planet 🤔
@@adamtak3128 I think that needs to be worded more carefully. A "large population" intrinsically does not mean much, but physically, it can mean that resources are definitely going to be more distributed and contested.
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
-Bob Ross 1942-1995
That quote doesnt even work here
Klab I love that quote. Penicillin was the same. Badly cleaned petrie dishes left out and bam antibiotics
@@pursel6794 explain.
@@klab3929 No you explain. Where is the connection to the video
@@pursel6794 No u.
Something similar to this helped my son born with Spina Bifida to walk without crutches. We used Theraputic Electric Stimulation (TES) when he was 5 years old. This was mild electric pulses delivered using patches on his hips and upper and lower legs. He wore these every night, alternating sides. This strengthened his muscles, and created calf muscle he never had before. From there, he could learn to walk. Music helps the brain coordinate movements more smoothly. This took about 4 years.
This did not hurt him. We adjusted it nightly so it felt like a very tiny tickle. It actually helped him to sleep better.
We would use this method more, but the program lost funding, and it was difficult to modify the equipment for adults.
He's 28 now and still walks every day, including at work and does stairs daily, although he uses a wheelchair for longer distances.
This should be available to everyone who needs it. There are many other applications for it, too.
I think it might work with an externally applied, removable patch along the spinal cord.
I want to try this, can you suggest me where and how to start, like equipments and its specs, i will be quicker in approach if you will be kind enough to share your experiences.
CHANAKYA SINHA
This was a long time ago. I remember the equipment came from a research project being done by a female Doctor in Canada for children with Cerebral palsy. We received treatment at St. Michael's Hospital, in Milwaukee, which is gone now. Children's Hospital in Milwaukee might know a little about it. The Nurse was Karen Rowan.
It was similar to a TENS unit. It was a small, flat device with smooth edges that ran on 9 volt batteries. There was a small screen to see the level of electricity. It had a way to adjust the voltage in small increments until the child could just barely feel it. If a muscle twitched or jumped it was too strong.
There was an automatic shut-off that would prevent it from delivering a spark or jolt if a lead came loose.
It also had a maximum voltage that was preset so as not to cause a burn to insensate skin.
There were two leads for each targeted muscle. Four leads per TES unit.
We used two TES units. One delivered electricity to his hip area, and waist, and the other his calf, and thigh. He had a hip that was close to being dislocated. We think this strengthened his hip enough to prevent dislocation.
The wires were thin, and fit into rectangular black conductive pads that had a sticky gel on one side. The pads were reusable, and remained damp. We replaced the pads monthly. The leads lasted a year. We had to gently wash his skin to remove oils that would prevent the pads from staying on through the night. We put him in a one piece pajama that covered the patches. The TES units went into a soft fanny pack around his waist. The patches were harder to place as he got older and had hair growth on his legs that needed to be shaved off first or it hurt to remove them. I removed them by spraying warm water from a spray bottle onto one edge, and slowly pulled off the patch with the gel still attached to it so it could be used again.
One night, we applied this treatment to one side of his body. The next night it was the other side. They were used for 8 hours per night. With one night completely off per week. We went to see the nurse at regular intervals, like every few months, to make sure we were doing it right.
I tried to replace the leads with ones I made myself from Radio Shack, which is also gone now. But the brass fittings were too large to be comfortable during sleep.
At the time, this cost us thousands of dollars. Now I think it could be done much cheaper. We used a specially trained Occupational Therapist to help with this.
CHANAKYA SINHA
I wish you luck. I hope you can recreate this amazing treatment. I wonder if there is a patent. I hope this could be something covered by insurance. Or perhaps it could be able to be done by people as an alternative treatment, if it could be carefully described and sourced and used correctly.
It has an interesting history as a treatment in the past. As I recall, it was called the wet cell battery technique. I read about it in an alternative historical book, and it was the only time I had read anything about treating Spina Bifida anywhere before that, except in a Medical School library, and that book, the only book, on it at the time, recommended euthanization of the infants.
@@ideoformsun5806 now i will have to study about human anatomy to find the muscles that i require to target, i was also thinking about, applyin some voltage on scalp of brain, but when i measured the max volt between any two points on scalp, it was in mV, also, i think applyin voltage can reverse the cause or not, like if a person is doing some mathematics, there is voltage spike in some part os scalp, the problem is that those spikes are result of collective different neurons working simultaneously, i wonder if application of similar volt will distribute energy among all those neurons or not. But i will try it anyways
@@ideoformsun5806 lots of thanks for the info
Very interesting, I hope a lot comes from this! This proves that the spinal cord isn't just a transmitter of brain signals, but a true extension of the brain itself
Similar to the gut.
Similar to the penis.
@@C-64 lol
The brain does everything only using neurons. Spinal cord is made up of neurons. That tells it all
@@maxmascarenhas1086 I incurred a spinal chord injury when i fainted and broke my neck. I can move all my muscles. Feel pain etc. But i haven't the power enough to walk. My legs move enough i can drive i have enough power to push the pedals with my feet. But still. I cannot walk. It is a curious malady any injury involving the sp. ... My husband is a mechanic. A brilliant mechanic at that. He has a very keen and creative brain. Like an engineer. He likens my injury to the transmission of vehicle. Your vehicle will still run. But have minimal power so as to make it useless. He will say I have blown my tranny!
I literally went to tears when he stood up at the wedding... I'm crying, literally
I had my left side paralysed due to a stroke for a few weeks. But then I recovered so the doctors were perplexed as it's a small chance one might recover. Also due to my age my doctors speculated the spontaneous recovery. Had two strokes at 17.
I understand his satisfaction to walk again without the chair.
Has it stopped from horrible to wheel chair bound people or those who are handicapped as most people are very unpleasant to disabled people.
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@@esecallum ok, thanks.
I appreciate that I can walk a lot more now!
Do you have a spine injury?
@@camilo678 no he's saying he grateful to be mobile and not bound to a chair with an injury
Perhaps you appreciate. But your appreciation is most likely to be fleeting - short-lived. It's only human to take such givens for granted.
@@MartianV2GG Thank you. I misunderstood him.
arthritis in the knees: imma about to change the life quality of this person.
The end brought a tear to my eye, I hope he and everyone else suffering from paralysis get the opportunity to walk again one day in our lifetime. These scientists are angels amongst us.
If these types of fields like science, research, NASA had the budget that the military has.... the world would be a different place
Unfortunately the big orange man only cares about world domination, not his citizens
@@ghdusk7865 It's not exclusive to Trump. Remember when Obama cancelled Constellation? Of course you probably don't because you don't actually care.
Yeah places would get raided cause of no military defense
NASA is the biggest waste of crap. Trillions spent on zip zilch.
@@ghdusk7865 it's not only one man!
imagine being in a argument with your wife and she just turns you off
Yikes.
Lol
*She gonna break yo bones*
Ratchet woman don’t need a switch to turn me off 😒
Not how it works
In 2003 i did my Bsc project for a stimulation device and took part in a project like this. It was a motion stimulator that imitates the leg force load from a human gait, so that the locomotion center could be reverse trained, so the nerve path is kept alive and later stimulation with electrodes could be done. Now 17 years later this is starting to take place, feels so cool to have been able to take part in something, that interesting.
Neurologist: You won't be able to walk again.
Spinal implant: I'm about to be your most expensive procedure.
Spinal stimulators are less expensive than the medicinal (intrathecal) pumps that Medtronic ( the major producer) has. If you couple the costs of consistent refills the pumps are much much more expensive.
Hahahaha... I was wondering when would someone say that. I know dude that the materials can be cheap but the doctor is not. Neologists charge a lot.
Supply and demand
Chris E Treatment v Cure.
Matt Ryan And marketing gimmicks
Technology like these is where funding should go
We gotta convince the US government that there's oil in our spines
Countries: "we need more oil!!"
Angry me: *shove it up your ugly ass*
Nah, better pour trillions of dollars into endless wars.
This technology combined with stem cell research could one day cure paralysis forever
I hope so.
This discovery mixed up with an exoskeletal leg cover will revolutionize everything!
This is why i’m studying engineering. Helping another human being is way better than be rich.
The creators of this product are rich.
Carlos Maximiliano Hernández González We need more people with your attitude in engineering. Cheers👍
Wanna team up
I hope the things you will work on won't be just for the rich
This video proves that science is the strongest form of magic. I cant wait to see more solutions like this become accessible to the world. Maybe one day we'll have implants that'll do PE for me xD
Well said
:)
you are the guy
You should give me your personal data, specyfically facebook infarmation (name, surname)
Science is actually the second strongest form of magic. Farts are the strongest form.
@@fartyperson teach me your spells
This is just so awesome to see! Really hope this gets the funding it probbaly still needs to be a more accessible option for anyone that needs it.
How can you dislike this video? You really have to have hate in your heart
Wheelchair manufacturers.
@@eidolonscrapchute No, you definitely Should have. The wheelchair industry is bad.
This warmed my heart! This is the best news for 2020 till now.
For the last 8 years I have had one of these. On my 2nd one. It reduces the pain in my lower back down both legs by interrupting the electrical pause that your brain would receive. Mine has 5 different programs that I use, and you can turn the impulse up or down at different rates. Have reduced my pain meds to a 3rd of what I was taking, couldn’t live without it.
2020: Connect your nervous system to your phone and run the 'walk program'
2030: ???????????
Your brain is the AI
This is the correct way to use your skills and knowledge to help others, Congratulations and all the best.
What an amazing and uplifting story. Most of us don't ever have to deal of face what this young man deals with each and every day and we find a way to feel sorry for ourselves. To see this man faced with his handicap having such a positive outlook on life should inspire all of us to be thankful for what we have in life. I am so impressed with his "bring it on" attitude.
I wish my dad could have lived long enough to have been able to get treatment from this technology
"Accidental"
Me: Have you learned nothing from Spider-Man?!
Come on nothing happened from that...now would you excuse me Im now going to inject myself with this dangerous fluid that I accidentally researched can regenerate limbs like a lizard
Dr. Octavius was ahead of his time
While watching this I feel proud that I was the one of engineer who was the part of building the software for the device that can change anyone's life and bring happiness again... Feeling proud 😊🙏 Medtronic engineers :)
This is amazing. What the implant is missing is some machine learning code to augment selective excitement of the nerves
LEARNING MORE THROUGH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE POWER OF HOW THE HUMAN BODY CAN HEAL ITSELF IS AMAZING!! LEARNING MORE ONE DAY AT A TIME!!
I was there pressing on the logo thinking it was the exit ( X ) of an ad
Lol
When you dont have health issues as bad as this guy, this stuff is inspiring. When you do have them, you get more pissed because you stopped hoping a long time ago and solutions are always just out of reach.
i m.physiotherapist ...and i m so proud that i am part of these kind of rehabilitation program....its are job that keeps this going 😊
This is life changing for so many people, I hope that they make this available for people who need it the most
Woooaaaa this is so insane. I Love humanity when i see people invent things like this. I have big hopes in our future.
I was badly injured im a car accident. Doctors told me I’d have to learn to hurt. 12 doctors and 2 hospital teams couldn’t help me. I’ve used my mind to learn to contract my muscles in new ways and where I could barely stand a few months ago, Im back to weightlifting. Now that my brain knows how to learn new ways to move nothing feels impossible. Being told you’ll never recover sucks so I really want to get involved with neuro and spinal patients. Much more is possible than modern medicine knows!
I’ve had my neurostimulator implant for severe nerve pain in my legs for 11 years. I think this is amazing knowing firsthand how this feels inside, I understand the premise of what they’re doing and hope it is beyond successful.
Wow! This is incredible! I'm a physical therapist and am so thankful that this exists. It will get better over time too.
Wow! This is fantastic news! I'm thrilled to see this medical breakthrough.
It's uplifting to see hope returned to a population that previously felt hopeless.
Thanks for sharing this information online. Blessings
As soon as i saw this , i thought of my cousin and the possibility of him being able to walk with his children.
This offers so much hope and when you see the amount of dislikes, you seriously ask what the Fcuk is wrong with those people
Maybe people know the truth. I have a spinal cord stimulator. It causes problems not stated.
My best friend had experimental spinal cord surgery in 2000. In Ecuador 17 days $25,000 total cost. They removed the nerves from the knee to the ankle and sowed them into the spinal cord with some stomach tissue around for faster healing and 10 hours in a hyperbaric chamber one hour per day.
They connected the circuit by using to pressure points in the feet. Hours after the surgery his therapist was able to make his foot jump by pressing the pressure points. He was paralyzed at the top of his chest and now has movement on the left side of his abdomen all the way to his hip. He can feel his bladder now too which is the best part. With special boots and a walker my friend was able to walk back in 2000, if you can call it walking but I'd say it's a start.
But in all the advances there is always a hitch or a niche that you have to do and no one has really made any more headway since my friend had his surgery. Just different types. I stood at the head of the operating table for 2 hours and watched part of the surgery, it was pretty amazing. The best advice I could give any paraplegic is just keep your legs moving daily and stretching. You can build a sit down bicycle with an electric motor that will move your legs for you, to keep your blood flowing. That's important.
I am crying with joy over this medical development! How wonderous is the body! How marvelous is human intellect when applied to helping people live Better Lives! Blessings to all.
The having kids part got me the way he says it😔, all the best bro.❤❤❤
First I was like Wow I love science! Then I saw that truck.. and got distracted and googled dope truck wheel chair lifts for 20 min. Love all of this!
damn, can't wait to not be able to afford this medical treatment
The most beautiful thing about science is to give people hope. On the yesterday's impossible, one day, one might say this is possible.
These people don’t get enough credit for how smart they are. I chose the wrong field their work is so interesting to me
I hope this treatment will work and help many people who are in need of it. My own grandfather has been paralyzed since for 7 years now, I hope he gets well soon .
Doctor: this is not a cure...
Bloomberg: this accidental treatment is curing paralysis...
I'm not a Bloomberg fan at all but decided to check this out. It is an absolutely amazing story and should make everyone smile. As time marches on these paralyzed people will begin to also march. Excellent!!!!!!
i have worked with several injured.first as aid to college student at asu. lived with ben shaw w times a few years each before he passed recently. so i looked at these issues since 1982.
This is just. Beautiful.
Sending love and healing energy to everyone reading this message.
If you need a test subject I'll volunteer! My injuries have has caused disabling pain and severe nerve damage causing drop-foot in my left leg! I broke my back in four places before crawling out of a ditch from a car accident and have had 3 herniated disc surgeries since then! Hope that works for you dude I can relate! I can walk but not real far because of nerve damage pain and plus my left ankle rolls out on me!
"KEEP ON KEEPIN ON"!
My aunt will cry for joy I show her this
That’s just mind blowing and breathtaking.
Simple little things we take them on a daily basis for granted for those everyday heroes they are Miracles
Videos like these make my have faith in humanity again.
"it's gotten so natural, I just lean forward on my Walker and think that I want to stand and my legs hold me"
Teared up at this line. A reminder to be thankful for what you can do.
This is great but the sad part is that it will probably never come to the public, I’ve seen a ton of cool products as useful as this and I have never seen them since
More stories like this, please!
Humans gonna be like ghost in the shell eventually.
Sounds awesome.
What does that mean? I don’t know much about haunted stories on ghost and stuff. Please explain.
@@phatcrayonz it a anime just look up ghost in the sell on UA-cam and its got nothing to do whit haunted stuff
@@phatcrayonz Its a Cyberpunk Anime. It is the inspiration for The Matrix
Jasc Random ohhh cool. I’ll go take a look.
I'm rooting for you bro, go get that second chance man. I love to see that technology develop to help people globally. Best news I heard All day.
My Prayers are with you young man 🙏🏻✝️♥️
Wow this is amazing. The world needs more tech and innovators like this.
I have permanent nerve damage of the L5S1 nerve root. It is a motor/sensory nerve. I have had nerve stimulators for years but they would not stop the pain. I just got the new stim that is a radio frequency stim. What a difference! No more pain down my right leg! This is amazing!
Combining this technology with neuralink is the way to go.
Or with Neural Networks.
@@jascrandom9855 We've got more than enough neural networks in our brain for this sort of thing, we don't need to teach an AI to help us control our legs when we can just connect them directly back to the brain
this is why scientist and doctors should be humble. In reality, all they know presently could become what "we used to think" at any moment .
Yup.
World needs more innovators like you guys 👏👍👌awesome work
Awesome! Sending prayers for a speedy recovery.
this made me tear up a bit. this gives hope to many.
I've lost the use of my legs several times from a hockey injury when I was 14 years old it took me 27 years to get it diagnosed by a doctor. And of course disability still doesn't want to give me credit for it. But anyway I learned how to walk again
Wonderful breakthrough! I have a friend that had an accident when he was 19. I am just thinking about him now!
It seems like a perfect companion for an exoskeleton.
i watched this whole video with a smile on my face and damm, when he stood up to his wedding i just felt the tears pouring down my face, it's amazing to see what science can do for people
How about a chip which can bridge the broken part in the spinal cord?
That would be a far more complex procedure than simply stimulating the dormant transmitters and receptors. The "bridge" is still standing, it just needs a lot of strengthening.
Yeah neuroanatomy is very complex
@@charcolew nice contribution bro. "hurr durr i want to contribute and seem clever so i will copy what the above guy said" lmfao. You normies fascinate me with your endless hivemindic behavior.
@@charcolew
We need technology to regenerate and reattach the nerves of the 40rskln.
The world can be so amazing sometimes. What a magnificent treatment for spinal cord injuries! There really is no limit to what we humans can accomplish when the desire for positive actions come to bear.
amazing and inspiring! Go science!
Simply amazing and unbelievable! To the continued success of these discoveries and innovations!
This is bloody amazing. There is hope after all.
I know about an old therapy that already knew this....it,s called Feldenkreiss...Feldenkreis was paralised and learned himself walking again...to somehow reroute the nervesystem...
Nice to see that this system works quicker and make somebody walk again 😊
I think these Scientists are amazing.
I was about 13 years old when a kid in school came up and punched me right in my lower spine. As soon as he hit me my ears started ringing and I couldn't hear for about 3/4 minutes. I was honestly really scared I thought it was permanent
I really believe this is the key to a lot of people regaining mobility and motor function back. Great job to these scientist who are pioneers in this field
Keep trucking brother.
WOW!
This is exciting. I worked with pt. With paralysis, stroke and all kinds of Neurological disease. With stroke we sometimes use NMES for gait training.
Last year we got prosthetic to be controlled by electricity to the nerves, this yeah fam got electricity to jump start the spinal functions. It's a beautiful recurrence
I'm half paralyzed. I can get up and walk on crutches. I walk outside to the car. Man this would help me fully walk. I wish I knew how about getting one.
...........Beautifully.......please more funding and studies!
I love that little dog!👏🏻👏🏾👏🏽🐕🦺🐕🐶🐾 A sweet friend! Yay!
Thank You so much for your courageously prevailing.
Bro the feeling that guy got when he first moved his toe must be amazing
I really hope they go somewhere with this, double meanings fully intended!
As an SCI RN, its 2020. Paralysis should absolutely not be permanent anymore.
I'm very happy for you. Hope it just keeps getting better and better.
This is absolutely ASTOUNDING!!!!! I can see a light-weight exoskeleton being *extremely* useful to help with training and stability.
Thank you for this story. Hope.
With the electrodes stimulation, injured nervous cells can heal and reconnect again.
This is magnificent, so is this a knew theoretical way to treat spinal injuries and other forms of spinal injuries, so how long before other people will get this or does it still need more time in the lab to develop this technological. Brilliant
They should use a mechanical exoskeleton in addition to the electrical stimulation so that they have support while walking or moving.
" hey peter, I'll give you $10 for your L4 vertebrae "
Family guy cut videos wooooo
Is there any research paper that I can read where it proves that the spinal chord is "as smart as the brain", and can control movement?