Paraplegic Suffers a Spider Bite, Walks Again

[mushroom_maiden]

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[riotous_prole]

Upcoming research - extract venom of spiders and their neurological effects/benefits to paraplegic patients.

[/nerd in me]

[jesuisgringoire]

I was going to say that's some intense psyche he's got there, but I actually know a nurse who works for a guy who now walks, having been in a wheelchair for two years because his mother insisted on it and he spent so long in the chair he lost muscle tone entirely. his nursing assistant convinced him to move away from momma, was a real meanie-head to him and wouldn't give him his chair, and he is now walking around without crutches.

[jokergirl]

Doubt it, but there ARE cases now and then of para/quadriplegic people getting some nerve function back after a while. My bet is on that it was that and he had the luck that it got discovered because he was in the hospital anyway.
Although spider bite = cure would be cool.

;)

[jokergirl]

Well, severed and severed - I saw about a case that had broken neck bones (C4) and managed to recover. It's rare but it seems that sometimes nerves regrow.

;)

[rocza]

AFAIK, the research has actually been going on for a while. I used to know someone who milked spiders for... I want to say the Mayo Clinic, but I could be wrong. (My major rule of thumb was to never EVER go into their house.)