Is Spinal Cord Regeneration Possible?
For many years it was assumed that spinal cord regeneration was not possible. Paralysis, often resulting from damaged spinal cords, was likely to be permanent, and many peoples’ lives were forever altered by a spinal cord injury. This is still the case today, but what has changed is the degree of optimism many people hold about someday being able to use medical techniques to fix spinal cord injuries and restart the damaged nerves that have lost function after an injury has occurred. It’s doubtful that a single researched element will provide the cure to spinal cord regeneration, and that what really will happen is that shared evidence from lots of research trials may ultimately point the way toward what needs to done. This may yet take a while, though all are joined in the hope of doctors figuring this out sooner rather than later. It’s important to note that even though optimism exists, unless miraculous events occur, chances are that people may need to wait, and potentially a cure ma
