You know, since Galvani discovered you could make a dead frog twitch with electricity, people have been looking for the magical properties of electricity. The sheer amount of quackery involving electricity is mind boggling
Nerves and neurons are, essentially, little electrical connections.
So, yeah, I'm not sure why anybody would be surprised by that.
Or that there's actually some useful things which can come out of it too.
There is a recent story [guardianlv.com] about a man regrowing a chopped-off fingertip (bone, flesh, fingernail, even fingerprint!) when he put some "extracellular matrix" derived from pig bladder tissue (which is normally a waste product) onto his fingertip-stub.
So, I wonder if this would work with spinal-cord injuries, and possibly enhanced with electrical stimulation.
I don't normally respond to ACs, but I think it was even more than 15 years ago that I saw my grandfather using an electro-stimulation system.
My grandfather has spinal damage from both polio and industrial accident. The stimulation system was intended to do much what the Op proposes, and I think it was closer to 25 years ago that I saw him using it.
Now, the 'giving the shock just as you attempt to use it' is a new bit. I think gramps just turned it on for a prescribed period.
Frankenstein [wikipedia.org].
You know, since Galvani discovered you could make a dead frog twitch with electricity, people have been looking for the magical properties of electricity. The sheer amount of quackery involving electricity is mind boggling
Nerves and neurons are, essentially, little electrical connections.
So, yeah, I'm not sure why anybody would be surprised by that.
Or that there's actually some useful things which can come out of it too.
So, I wonder if this would work with spinal-cord injuries, and possibly enhanced with electrical stimulation.
I don't normally respond to ACs, but I think it was even more than 15 years ago that I saw my grandfather using an electro-stimulation system.
My grandfather has spinal damage from both polio and industrial accident. The stimulation system was intended to do much what the Op proposes, and I think it was closer to 25 years ago that I saw him using it.
Now, the 'giving the shock just as you attempt to use it' is a new bit. I think gramps just turned it on for a prescribed period.