«We have uncovered a fundamentally new intervention strategy that can dramatically affect recovery of voluntary movement in individuals with complete
paralysis even years after injury,» said Susan Harkema, Ph.D., Owsley Brown Frazier Chair in Clinical Rehabilitation Research at the University of Louisville, rehabilitation research director at KSCIRC, Frazier Rehab Institute, director of the Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network and primary author of The Lancet article.
Researchers involved in the study say the therapy has the potential to change the prognosis of people with
paralysis even years after injury.
Not exact matches
The worms can cause
paralysis or lethal bacterial infections, and
even if you survive mostly unscathed, next
year it can happen all over again.
For example, people living with quadriplegia who try to move their arm still generate arm - movement signals in the motor cortex of their brain,
even after several
years of
paralysis.
Even just 25
years ago the virus infected more than 350,000 people, causing
paralysis and irreversible disfigurement.
Though deficiency for those starting out with adequate stores may take
years to develop, the results of B12 deficiency can be devastating, with cases reported of
paralysis, psychosis, blindness, and
even death.