Future Cures for SCI

As I mentioned in your introductory post, there is no cure right now. The best thing to do is to manage your daily routine as efficiently as possible so that you are in full control.

For newly injured ( im presuming that your injury is recent), it is possibly for some or all function to return but this is due to and depending on nerve regeneration. This will depend on other factors but it is a positive sign that you can walk.

Take a journal and write a diary each day on your progress, when you look back, you will see how much you have improved because any regeneration is slow, so slow that you may not notice it happening but looking back through a journal will show you the progress.

Yup, I think distain for the bowel program is unanimous...

James Tour PhD has done work with graphene nano-ribbons where they severed the spinal cord in rats, and graphene was applied to the injured spinal cord. The rats recovered the majority of function, but some deficits were evident in the video I saw. Still, interesting work. It isn't clear to me that this is being further developed at this time.

If this were available as a treatment, I'd have to pass. My injury is incomplete and I wouldn't tolerate any level of risk that might result in an outcome worse than I have. If I had a complete injury, I might think differently about that.