Dr Silver's Vent dependant & bowel and bladder treatments

Very cool, thanks for sharing bob! It looks like this has got lots of potential for treating various types of nerve damage

Hey bob, one of the best posts I've seen so far. 

Good to see you back jawaid I will attempt to explain it to you, i just hope my understanding translates to something that makes sense lol

Ok..the presentation is being given by Dr Jerry Silver at the Case Western Reserve University..he starts by explaining that for higher level injured individuals the function they most want back is the function to breath without the need for a vent.

The development is that he and his team have succesfully been able to restore breathing in an animal model by using an old and new technique to bridge a lesion in the spinal cord.

The old technique being nerve graft to help restore function, up until now nerve grafting has not been succesful in a spinal cord. The reason it seems is that after injury scar tissue develops, the scar tissue contains properties that prevents nerve growth.

The new technique then deals with this problem within the scar tissue. A bacterial enzyme injected into the area gets rid of the scar tissue so the combined technique is this:
A nerve graft (which is the old technique) bridges that gap that is caused by the lesion/injury, then the enzyme in injected into the starting points on the graft where it adjoins the peripheral nerve (the peripheral nerve runs along the spinal cord from the brain and nerves branch off to limbs and organs.)

This injected removes the scar tissue that has been preventing nerve re growth so now it is removed, the gap is bridged the nerves are able to reconnect and restore good breathing function.

If anyone has a better understanding or way to describe then please chip in...i just hope my explanation is clear to understand and i have got it right lol 

Thankyou for clarifying grammy and for sharing the presentation