Name: This Accidental Treatment Is Reversing Paralysis
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T16:22:05.000Z
Duration: 8 min 1 s
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if you lost that communication between the brain

and the spinal cord, there's really nothing you can do

It turns out, the spinal cord has much more

of a sophisticated role than we thought before.

We can stimulate the neural networks in the spinal cord.

how to do things it was able to do before the injury.

I was supposed to have been an individual

that was gonna live and die from this chair.

it's so close to the point of just moving this leg.

the availability to get out of this chair.

Growing up, we started out with go karts,

and then we got into bicycles and everything.

My grandpa took me to my first Supercross race.

Seeing that, it instilled me with this want

My career was at the point where I was amateur pro.

It was a couple races, and then I had my pro points,

where then I could race the stuff that you see on TV.

I went out and I was testin' a new motorcycle

Some people came up to me and were like, you okay?

You're not gonna regain any mobility, any function.

From here on out you're gonna have to have daily care,

Basically how I took it was that from that point on,

the first thing I went to was looking at centers

that offered rehab and locomotor training,

That was where I kinda heard through the grapevine

and they were seeing some very interesting things happen.

We implanted the individual with the epidural stimulator.

He tried to move his toes, and he wiggled his toe.

We tested it, the stimulator off, and they cannot move.

This dude's got a switch that just makes him normal.

about a spinal cord injury is that the brain

is the primary controller of movement and function,

It can learn, it can remember, it can forget,

How we actually walk is this circuitry already has in it

the ability to generate patterns to walk.

As devastating as a spinal cord injury is,

that circuitry still has the ability to do that,

but it loses what we would call state of excitability.

It has a lead that's placed in the lower spinal cord,

So the stimulator actually helps those neurons

that are still viable, that are still alive,

to be able to function like they did before.

It's five days a week, two sessions a day.

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This Accidental Treatment Is Reversing Paralysis

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