This article on paralysis/MS featured on news programmes in Northern Ireland yesterday(13th March 2017).Here is the link.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39256584
I'm sure it has some relevance to those of us with ME/CFS who are crippled by our illness and find it difficult to walk and to do other tasks.
Dr Denise Fitzgerald from Queen's University in Belfast talks about her paralysis and how she recovered from it.
The paralysis was caused by a similar condition to multiple sclerosis called transverse myelitis.Her spinal cord had been stripped of a fatty substance called myelin - a protective coating that allows electrical signals to travel down nerves
.Dr Fitzgerald was, eventually, able to make a "95% recovery" and even taught herself to walk again.She now works in this field and is hoping that they can find a cure for MS.She is one part of a large research group made up of neuroscientists, immunologists and stem cell scientists that has cracked how the myelin is regenerated.
Hopefully in future their work may have benefits for ME/CFS patients too.
I'm sure it has some relevance to those of us with ME/CFS who are crippled by our illness and find it difficult to walk and to do other tasks.
Dr Denise Fitzgerald from Queen's University in Belfast talks about her paralysis and how she recovered from it.
The paralysis was caused by a similar condition to multiple sclerosis called transverse myelitis.Her spinal cord had been stripped of a fatty substance called myelin - a protective coating that allows electrical signals to travel down nerves
.Dr Fitzgerald was, eventually, able to make a "95% recovery" and even taught herself to walk again.She now works in this field and is hoping that they can find a cure for MS.She is one part of a large research group made up of neuroscientists, immunologists and stem cell scientists that has cracked how the myelin is regenerated.
Hopefully in future their work may have benefits for ME/CFS patients too.