repeated muscle stimulation

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(07-18-2016, 10:27 AM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: Couldn't quite remember if it was a brain injury for you or if you also had a damaged spine. 

Just whiplash, but nothing lasting 

(07-18-2016, 10:40 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: It could be used though to keep your muscles up or whatever the term is.

EDIT: I hit "Post Reply" and realize that's why you go to work out. I have a brain injury too, so don't mind me, lol.

Reading is your friend lol!

No harm done!

(07-18-2016, 02:19 PM)Wyche Wrote: They are trying this with my dad now.

Good luck to him!

(07-18-2016, 04:05 PM)Au165 Wrote: I just read an article about a guy who is missing 90% of his brain, but functions like a relatively normal person (wife, 2 kids, works a general labor job, IQ about 75). Apparently it is changing scientist's view on the brain and how it adapts to find ways to function. It doesn't necessarily "fix" anything but could lead to further study on regaining operations of areas that are thought to be lost.

Brain is an amazing thing!  

I'm not missing 90%, but I've mentioned before that doctors have looked at my brain scan and, I'm missing so much of my brain, I should be in a vegetative state.

(07-18-2016, 06:13 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Brad needs to try Ambien.


http://www.vice.com/video/the-ambien-effect


Zolpidem tartrate, or Ambien, has been prescribed to millions of insomniacs internationally, yet those who use the drug to ensure a good night's sleep are seldom aware it also possesses the ability to normalize functioning in certain types of damaged neurons, a phenomenon called "the Ambien effect." The first awakening occurred in 1999 when a man who had spent three years in a persistent vegetative state spontaneously regained consciousness after ingesting a 10mg tablet. Since then, hundreds of patients have experienced miraculous recoveries from traumatic brain injury using Ambien. Hamilton Morris travels from South Africa, where the Ambien effect was first discovered, to England to interview a physician on the cutting edge of Ambien research, and then to Florida to meet a voice-over artist who depends on Ambien to speak.



Here is a more scientific link

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/815113

The observation that zolpidem can have a paradoxical arousal effect on patients with a severe brain injury dates back about 6 years and has been reported by many different groups.

I believe we've already discussed that on here (may have been on Facebook or both), and the side effects have been known to make people very violent and not remembering anything about what they did, just doing bad things and not remembering it, and just not remembering entire days.