SPMLs & EtOH

OK, we have things that attached to coated needles can find and stimulate nerve branches of our choosing. Then what? Injecting something that does something, and lasts, hopefully. Such as? Things that various people use include: Phenol = “an alcohol” Ethanol = “alcohol”

Cryo-ablation Radio-ablation Radiation - PHENOL

Take any carbon chain or molecule, from 1 carbon to however many, and stick a ‘hydroxyl’ [ -OH ] on one of the carbons and that molecule regardless of what else it is still also gets called “an alcohol”. Phenol is benzene with a single -OH stuck on. Xylol, for example, is benzene with two -OH s tacked on. Both phenol and xylol are ‘alcohol s ’ Phenol is used in medicine the way the military uses flame throwers. It KILLS! Anything & everything! Wipe down contaminated surfaces. Kill fungus. Kill viruses and anything else it touches. When used on nerves – it KILLS them. Dead. If a muscle is innervated by a dead nerve, the muscle also dies, slowly, in about a year, maybe two. That muscle as if gazing at Medusa is turned to biologic stone (fibrous scar). During those two years initial joy at the decrease of spastic reaction turns to horror. An even worse rigid contracture has replaced a lesser degree reactive contracture.