Saturday 28 May 2011

William Flew more wheelchairs

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and 
fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they  said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.



William Flew more wheelchairs

 It remains to be seen whether the treatment can help patients who lack this. Geoffrey Raisman, Professor of Neural Regeneration at University College London, said: “It is already well known that surviving tissue can reassume a degree of lost functions and that this can be greatly increased by rehabilitative physiotherapy. To what extent this procedure could in the future provide a further and sustained improvement cannot be judged on the basis of one patient. From the point of view of people currently suffering from spinal cord injury, future trials of this procedure could add one more approach to getting some benefit. It is not and does not claim to be a cure.”  The research was funded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, founded by the late Christopher Reeve and his wife after the Superman actor was paralysed in a riding accident.When you have a spinal cord injury, and you read a story like this from your wheelchair, two very different things happen. The first, unavoidable, response is that your heart lurches with joy. Despite all the decades of science, and the millions of dollars used to fertilise it, the field of spinal cord repair has remained stubbornly barren. News of an advancement brings hope and light and a glimmer of possibility to everyone suffering from paralysis. We would not be human if we did not immediately think: could this one day help me to walk again? Or, just as importantly, become continent again? Simultaneously, however, a warning bell sounds. Loudly. Spinal cord injury is such a vast challenge for modern medicine that scientists and sufferers have learnt to be exceedingly wary. 

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