SPMLs & EtOH

TOXINS? It is confused with alcohol so often. We must include this although it does not belong in this topic – the most deadly toxin known to humanity.

<== This stuff costs us in the thousands of dollars per vial and often multiple vials are used (by non-surgeons). It has its place, but in leg use it is very short lived (measure in weeks) and has zero protective value. It does not prevent any of the damaging joint things that worry us in cerebral palsy. Effectiveness over time fades. Is this simply a gun that people without carry licenses can strap to their hips? Just asking.

So, we have beaten spasticity in parallel into the ground. Like elastics in normal volunteers, it is a layer, not a removal of anything. As a mechanical drag on the pendulum we just peel that away. But, in the more severe degrees of spasticity, it isn’t just the drag that must be dealt with. The reflex noise can be so severe that it interferes with decoding control messages that arrive ready to be sorted, interpreted, and delivered to the various muscles. We already mentioned it, but visually? Anything similar? Imagine a great video being watched on one computer (a good one) but you have to leave & so you obtain a copy of that video file to take with you. You put that file on your own (good) computer and … and … hmm mm, it won’t play! All you see is speckles and hear hiss. Bad file? Wasn’t it copied correctly to your ‘thumb drive’? A message pops up saying that you are missing a ‘codec’ [= coder decoder] for this kind of compacted file. It is a key used to unfold this KIND of very compressed file. There are many codecs for the many compressed file types. You download the mysteriously named codec and the movie plays fine.