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QUESTION: Hi there my name is Jonathan and im form London England i was reading about your accident back in 1995 and did they say that your spina acord is damaged cause you see they say back here that it takes to years for the spina acord to grow back but you may not get anything back only time will tell cause the reason i know that is because i cant walk aswel even i havent got control of my bladder and bowels and my sexual functions and feeling i dont know if i can feel or sence to be honest with you cause i was knock dowm by a police car early 2008 and when i was in the first hospital they didnt have any idea so they took me to a other hospital called stoke mandevile and i was there for 6 and ahalf month rehab and all together i was in hospital for nearly 7 months and when i was in hospital one of my mates told me about some website xcell-centre.com but the only thing is it's not 100% though and thats all i can say in the moment.

  take care Jonathan

ANSWER: hi jonathan

weird- here in the US they told me they'd never seen anyone with this injury recover.. in fact i've never had anyone write in with a true cord injury (whether bruised or severed or whatever) that recovered the ability to walk, etc

my vertebrae chipped off and punctured the thecal sac around the cord, thereby bruising it. 'bruise' sounds so simple, huh?? but the end result is the same. i have hands, but nothing below my armpits, and i'm now at 13 yrs since the wreck

they're always doing research but it seems to usually only apply to those who are just injured. and i haven't come across anything that for sure works. it's a bleak thing, isn't it?

i'll check out the link you sent for sure though, and thanks for it. i wish you good luck, and all the rest of us stuck with this whole bad deal...

take it easy- let me know if your situation does change, ok?
thanks
leslie

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QUESTION: mind you i went back to the hospital where i i got my rehab from and my doctor said that i have got a bit of movement and feeling but not alot and thats all im gonna get and that i wont be able to go to the toilet on my own like if i didnt know that like lol

if you wanna talk or chat about it heres my Email  

take care Jonathan

ANSWER: hi again-
just to let you know, i talked to the guys at xcell-center.com. they said that for complete injuries they (like everyone else so far) can do nothing. that with incomplete injuries they can do a little, but not everyone is helped by it. plus it costs $10K in US dollars-

you might like going to newmobility.com
they have forums where you can talk to alot of other people who've had similar issues (and alot of others too). they are great at helping problem solve and they've all been through it too...

take it easy out there
good luck
leslie

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QUESTION: they just do complete thats stupid cause if your incomplete you got a better chance of getting things back mind you i might go for it myself

Answer
they just do complete injuries?? you might want to check with them again, because i had the exact opposite impression.

this is from andrew purdy of xcell-center.com 's email to me:

"But for incomplete SCI, patients do report some improvements. I basically tell patients to not expect more than moving up one level on the ASIA scale.  Some patients don抰 receive any benefits, others report improvements.  Please find  below some listed improvements that patients have reported to us  post treatment.  Truly complete SCI are basically non-responsive to treatment, "

ask them again