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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Something something electrical shocks.
I really don't think you can sever the spinal cord and then glue it back together, wouldn't it be like trying to fix a broken electrical cord by jamming the cable together and taping it and hoping that the wiring grows together properly?
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Spinal research has come a long way and continues to evolve. They are very close to restoring feeling and movement to many types of paralysation victims. Many things we thought were impossible in medicine have become possible. And unlike an electrical cord, the body can heal.
I would agree this wouldn't work now. But it may not be far off. With genetics, stem cells, other ways of teaching the body to heal we didn't have 20 years ago, I could see it. We have just had successful hand and face tranaplants in the last five years. They were once thiught impossible. The only hurdle here is the spinal cord. A hurdle yes, but I can't see how it's an impossibility.