Amazing Potential for Treating Spinal Injuries

[Kipper is King]

I read this article this morning, and it sounded too good to be true. Then, I watched the video (ended up watching the whole thing) and my jaw hit the floor. This one guy, after having a bad spinal injury, spent years researching and eventually testing a procedure on himself. Now, the company he has founded has had great success testing with monkeys. They were able to run mere weeks after having their spinal cord injured. Wow.

http://gizmodo.com/5648158/ (article here)



If everything is as stated, then this is incredible.

[Bob]

Maybe I missed it, but did the presenter ever reveal why he's no longer paralyzed? Did he take his own medicine, so to speak?

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Bob

Maybe I missed it, but did the presenter ever reveal why he's no longer paralyzed? Did he take his own medicine, so to speak?

Did some googling, this guy seems to be a bit on the shady side from what i read, multiple different stories.

Anyways from what appears to be the most likely story, he suffered temporairy paralysis resulting from a car accident, lasted less then 2 weeks, but suffered complications from the resulting surgery that had him bedridden, though not paralyzed.

unlike OPs assertion, Reynolds was not paralyzed long term, these procedures have never been tested on a human and certainly not Reynolds himself.

[Kipper is King]

Originally Posted by Dan02

Did some googling, this guy seems to be a bit on the shady side from what i read, multiple different stories...unlike OPs assertion, Reynolds was not paralyzed long term, these procedures have never been tested on a human and certainly not Reynolds himself.

Ah.OK, I stand corrected. Perhaps too good to be true indeed.