This story is very meaningful to me because my late dad had a slip and fall on ice in a public place in 2002 and spent the last six years of his life paralyzed

This story is very meaningful to me because my late dad had a slip and fall on ice in a public place in 2002 and spent the last six years of his life paralyzed from the chin down from a crack in one of his cervical vertebrae that bruised his spine. An immobilizing injury like that is financially devastating even for someone like my dad, who planned for retirement and supplemental retirement medical insurance carefully and who was eligible for Medicare (of course, like all older Americans) and Veterans Administration medical care. It stresses a whole family when a family member is immobile and helpless. I saw a lot of other patients (many much younger, often injured in motorcycle accidents) at the care facilities that treated my dad with the best available contemporary care, and all I can say is that there is a LOT of work to do to improve treatment of spinal cord injuries. The experiment reported in the article submitted here is very preliminary and may not work for many patients. It will be interesting to see if this treatment approach can be refined and become more generally useful, or if further clinical investigation and basic science research will lead to other approaches to treatment that are even better.