> Did anyone catch the 48 Hours program last night about research on spinal
> cord injuries? Looks promising. But I wonder if that would help MS or TM
> patients, since ours is a different situation.
>
> Barbara
>Bill wrote:
>I don't see why it wouldn't work for tm or ms. I know these aren't really
>spinal cord injuries maybe some can be if the swelling creates to much
>damage but if you think about it if they could regenerate a severed spinal
>cord they must also be regenerating the myelin to because without the
>myelin as a conductor it won't know where to go.
>Jim Lubin wrote:
>Since my case of TM left me paralyzed from the neck down and totally
>dependent on a repirator to breathe, doctors have always considered me a
>person with a spinal cord injury.
>
>A lot of the symtoms people with TM are describing are the same as a person
>with a sci: Autonomic Dysreflexia, Neuropathic (nerve-generated) pain,
>Muscle spasms, or spasticity. When I was in rehab I was told to expect
>these and what causes them.
Makes sense to me. I was going by what someone said on the list some time ago
that MS and TM were considered different from spinal injury.
Does anyone know more about the research that was mentioned on 48 Hours?
Barbara