The benefits may seem small, but they can make a world of difference, patients say.
  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    6 months ago

    Just because no one knows how it works doesn’t mean you can’t perfect it’s use with trial and error.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    But we can fucking guess right? Like maybe the linking network gets a fuckin hint…“the leg is this way you retard!” But in a shock.

    • skye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      considering how synapses in the brain get stronger if both neurons fire, and how paralysis is most of the time caused by a severance in the connectivity of 2 (or way more) neurons…

      Yeah this looks like it could be the reason why

      P.S: This comment is made with not much knowledge in anatomy (past highschool level), take with a shaker of salt

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yup my comment is also made with very little to no googling. I’m sure there’s a big reason why we … probably because you can’t be testing things on actual people. It would be horrible to watch someone explain how they figured out that the spinal chord does X because when you shock Z you get a twitch on Y. It’s all the twitching.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Most of current medicine falls into the same cayegory. Like allergy shots. Trail and error. Most diagnosis by general practitioners are just, "well people who report X, usually have Y. And bacterial vs viral… just a gut feel based on past patients who either responded well to antibiotics or not. Never mind that the vast majority never report back even.

  • celeste@kbin.earth
    2·
    6 months ago

    I had the idea that electricity had been tried for paralysis, and I looked it up and ben franklin did experiments to try and cure it with shocks.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16717219/

    I wonder if the difference was targeting? The type of paralysis? The podcast Sawbones did an episode on the history of electricity in medicine that was pretty interesting. I might relisten.