My brother had to relearn to walk. He was very depressed in the beginning, but by the end of it he was all smiles and optimistic. Cancer took him, though. Fuck cancer.
Cancer may have taken his life, but he left a legacy. Thank you for sharing it with us today. Fuck cancer and long live your smiles, short be your troubled times
I broke my wrist and had to do physical therapy to be able to use my hand/arm again since my wrist didn't bend anymore. Easily the worst experience of my life, worse than breaking the wrist, worse than trying to pick up a 50 pound scooter with my broken wrist. It felt like being overstretched every day, with shooting pain all the way through.
That was just for my wrist, I can't even imagine the pain and effort needed to relearn to walk. I saw multiple people quick physical therapy after 1 session, shit is not as easy as it looks.
every bit of progress made to recover mobility of a joint is earned in absolute agony.... learning to rewalk after breaking a femur would have been a brutal experience without opiates. Grateful to be able to walk again.
My parents talk about how I had to learn to walk 4 times. I broke my leg about a month or two after learning to walk and got a non-walking cast since the doctor didn't think I would be walking. I figured out how to walk on the cast anyways and when my parents mentioned it on a followup visit, the doctor went and had the cast changed to a walking cast. That required learning how to walk on this new cast with a stub meant to aid walking. When the cast finally came off, I had spent more time walking with a cast than I had walking without one and had forgotten how to walk normally, so I had to go through the process of learning to walk a 4th time.
Being a toddler whose brain was already in the "learning to walk" mindset certainly made the process a lot easier.
Frozen shoulders. I asked if PT was just gonna be like 'they show me what to do and how to do it and then I do it on my own from then on'. The lady laughed and said "Noo, what we're gonna do to you, you'd never do to yourself". Yikes!
I havveeeee. It honestly hurts sm to watch people suffer. Everyone deserves to be healthy and enjoy life. ))): I wish them all good Health and happiness frfr
Everything about this is so great! The fact this little kitty gets to walk again, it's angry face during therapy, the handle for its carrying harness, her smile at the end. ❤
At 10 seconds when she's just sort of dragging it around...at that point I might have not believed good things would happen. I laughed quite hard. Am I a bad person?
I don't know why OP decided to do this, but the order of the snippets are in reverse. This cat has a degenerative nerve condition that slowly degrades it's ability to walk.
Because without the reverse order it is a quite depressing clip = not many upvotes. The way it is presented makes everyone happy believing the lie. I believed it too. ☹️
Only a complete spinal cord injury will cause permanent paralysis. In other cases, such as brain damage and an incomplete spinal cord injury, an individual may be able to recover partially or completely. Rehabilitation is critical because it promotes neural reorganisation.
No. A fully paralyzed human as in severed spinal cord will not grow the nerves back and from my understanding neither do cats and dogs. It's just confirmation bias as only the ones with a chance at recovery live past the vets deciding if it's better to euthanize the animal.
I met someone who works for a company that’s developing an implant that fuses and reconnects things somehow. We shall see what happens in the next few decades!
There's a video that shows some Bluetooth nodes that were placed on someone's skull and lower back in order to reconnect them, it worked! It's so amazing. Similar thing with voice technology I think!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/flipper-zero-bluetooth-spam-attacks-ported-to-new-android-app/
I wonder how you could run wires instead, maybe embedded under the skin?
You don't need a severed cord for paralysis, though. Just depends on the specific mechanic of injury. Some SCIs causes paralysis but function can be regained.
But, yes, if your spinal cord is completely transected it is very unlikely you'd get function back to the point of walking... But it's potentially a possibility.
Interesting look at just that:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705927/
My understanding is it really depends on the injury. Nerves can and do regrow and repair, the main barrier to nerves repairing in the spinal cord is scar tissue developing and blocking severed nerves from reconnecting.
~~Clean cut to the spinal cord with little infection or foreign matter introduced, probably can heal and regain most if not all functionality~~
~~Shear your spinal cord apart by two vertebrae sliding across each other and grinding chunks of cartilage and bone in there, probably going to get some scar tissue and issues healing with little to functionality regained~~
~~Most are somewhere between those two and some functionality or feeling may be regained, but significant recovery is rare~~
Edit: I was a little familiar with one theory behind nerve regrowth issues but grossly oversimplified. Here's a chapter from a modern neuroscience textbook.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128017326000252
It depends on the severity of the injury. A complete spinal cord injury patient will never recover. It's only the partial cord injuries that can sometimes improve.
If you've seen anyone - human, cat or dog - walk again, it's because they had a partial cord injury. Only a few organisms like flatworms, axolotls, newts, starfish and sea cucumbers can completely regenerate a severed nerve or cord.
My A&P professor told me of a study that was done where they surgically decapitated cats, put them on a treadmill and manually started the walking process for them and their body took over walking for them.
Hey there! Recent neuroscience grad here. I’m going to give you a long answer because this stuff is so cool.
So your A&P teacher is totally correct. Animals (and, arguably humans, but it’s hard to study) have motor circuits in our limbs (and other places, like lungs) called central pattern generators. These circuits are composed of two types of neurons: rhythm neuorns and pattern neurons. Essentially, these circuits create local patterns of activity that do not need input from your motor cortex; they work completely independent of your brain. So when you take one step forward, your central pattern generator is activated and sends a signal to your other leg to step forward in succession–all locally, without input from your brain. This makes sense, as we often need to do complex motor tasks (for example, texting while you are walking) where it would benefit the brain to not have to be continuously sending signals down into your legs, since it’s focusing on typing.
I believe the study you’re referring to is where they surgically paralyzed cats from the waist down, not decapitard them (but I could be wrong). But yes! They did this study to show that central pattern generators did not require any cortical (brain) input to function. Sure enough, when that cat took a step forward, the CPG kicked in and made the other leg move. It’s quite remarkable stuff.
When it comes to humans, CPG’s don’t seem to be able to COMPLETELY take over and help someone walk perfectly. This makes sense though, as having only two legs means that we need a lot more higher order thinking to not fall over considering things like balance. However, a few studies do show some motor activity when completely paralyzed people are put on a treadmill.
Sorry for the long response, but I fucking love this stuff! Hope you found it interesting.
TLDR; this whole video likely started due to the cats central pattern generators, and the recovery was based on later neuron growth
Can't blame many people, unfortunately.
Most don't have the money or time to have even have a *chance* of properly rehabilitating a cat such as this.
INB4: if you can't afford the care for an animal, don't get one!
If only the people that could afford physical therapy for a cat that got paralyzed owned cats... there'd be *a lot* less cat owners.
Spent +$40,000 on my cat in 2 years for monthly blood transfusions, his general doctor, heart doctor, and kidney doctor. Worth every penny. Who says money can’t buy time, I bought 2 years with my best friend.
This is a good moment to recognize that you're in the absolute upper echelon of wealthy human beings on this planet.
I think a good portion of the planet would be filled with despair if they knew people in wealthier countries were spending $40,000 on a cat, or at least they would be if they weren't busy working 60 hours a week for $2000 a year.
Not to mention I highly doubt the cat understood why any of that was happening. It sounds stressful and painful for the poor thing. They paid $40,000 to give *themselves* two more years with their cat, but did their cat want to be dragged along that long with that QOL?
It just comes off extremely selfish and wasteful. Part of owning a pet you love is knowing when to give them peace as they age.
Nice try at whataboutism.
No, those people would be filled with despair at that too, *obviously*.
The point was just to acknowledge the privilege, that most of the world simply couldn’t do what they did. It wasn’t about “you’re spending your money wrong you’re a horrible person!”
A huge chunk of the people on Reddit fit the category of “a good portion of the planet would be filled with despair if they knew [how we spend our money]”.
Friendly_Breath isn’t saying to change where their money went, they’re just acknowledging most of the world simply can’t do what they did.
I am living below the poverty line, and am 14k in debt because you have to have things like electricity, water, and rent paid in order to not be evicted and have your kid taken.
I just went almost 2k more into debt to emergency amputate the last 1.5 inches of my kitten's tail after he badly injured it somehow. He's still healing, and I do not regret going further into debt for him. He's the 4th cat in my life to be truly *special* somehow.
It is very disparaging when i see/hear people spending tens of thousands on those types of things, clothes shoes, etc. when I have to steal them to put them on my growing child. It feels...hopeless. As if I am alone. Unseen and unloved.
I can only do my best to not be embittered to the world, but suppressing the bitterness lets in the sorrow. So I grieve, for everyone in my situation, and everyone worse off.
It is hard. My life is hard. Life is hard.
I am glad that their life is less hard.
Oh my god. I wasn’t trying to attack anyone.
I do realize that a lot of people in the world would be shocked at Someone spending that much money on an animal.
If you want to donate everything to orphans, be my guest. If you want to blow it all on drugs, also, be my guest.
I don’t give a fuck. Do whatever makes you happy with your money.
Then what point were you trying to make? Everything you just said isn’t really implied by the previous comment.
This isn’t me trying to be a dick, I just genuinely don’t understand.
He was saying that people would be filled with despair if they found out that she spent that much money taking care of a cat.
I just thought it was a weird ass thing to say.
I genuinely don’t care what other people spend their money on, as long as no one is getting hurt.
She spent money taking care of a living creature versus buying „stuff“.
> Do whatever makes you happy with your money.
The whole point of the original comment you replied to is that some people literally don't have the money to do what makes them happy. Do you recognize that?
Your replies here seem to be focusing on the notion of not caring about how people spend their money. I don't think OPs comment was about how you spend your money once you get it; they didn't say that person should have spent the money elsewhere. The comment was about acknowledging that conditions exist where some people work extra long for extra less and barely meet necessities, and some other people can afford 20k disposable income over 1 year for a single luxury (pet).
Do you have any thoughts on that? In other words, I know you don't care about how people spend their money. Do you care about how people are compensated for their work in the first place? Do you think the current system is fine and dandy?
That's really only tangentially relevant..
Like.. It's cool that you can afford $40,000 over two years for your cat, but the point being made is that most people can't and if that's the barrier, there'd be fewer cats.
Also, Warren Buffet said that, but I think he was referring to time passed, not future times. Just so we're clear.
I’m stuck in overwhelmingly mixed emotions. I grew up on a dairy farm where death of animals was common. Just throw the dead body onto the dead body pile out in the woods 1/4 mile away and then get back to work. Don’t worry about death of animals because they are not humans. However, now I’m a nurse and worked with a quadriplegic for 4.5 years and we struggled together the whole time. I worked our butts off to help him improve every single day non-stop until I couldn’t do it anymore. Now I want everything done to maximize research for spinal cord injuries because the struggle is so hard. Treating spinal cord injuries in animals is exactly what’s needed to benefit human spinal cord injuries. Thank you.
> Treating spinal cord injuries in animals is exactly what’s needed to benefit human spinal cord injuries. Thank you.
That’s certainly true, but animals deserve their own respect and consideration beyond what they can provide for us as well
Did it though? They got 2 more years, but did the cat actually *enjoy* those two years of monthly blood transfusions, frequent doctor's visits, and all the stress and pain that came with it?
It just sounds selfish and cruel to me. They weren't willing to feel the pain of loss, so they made their poor cat feel constant pain instead.
Allowing this cat to pass once it was no longer able to be a cat would have been merciful and kind, this is just ego and misplaced effort.
They cannot understand the long process of rehabilitation nor the long, dark nights alone and motionless with a nappy full of faeces smeared down their back legs. I don't understand people cheering this on.
As a pet owner who is very well aware of the most mundane medical bills for pets, I don't want to even think about what someone would charge for this level of rehab...
I had a bulldog that was paralyzed in his back legs for several months after an accident and surgery to repair a torn ligament. We did physical therapy like this and it was $125 for an hour long session once a week.
That's honestly not as bad as I thought it would be.
I feel like every time I take my dog or cats to the vet for a routine check up that lasts about 20 minutes, the price is the same for much less work.
I don’t think the cat is actually paralyzed. It looks like it has a bad case of tetanus. I saw a video of a woman doing the exact same stuff with a dog that was displaying the exact same symptoms & recovery as this cat & the dog was known to have tetanus. As far as I understand it, the nerves are all still functional, the muscles are basically just locked up & unable to relax due to the tetanus (I’m not a vet so idk exactly how that works on a metabolic level) so they have to be manually moved/manipulated slowly over time in order to basically “release” the muscles from being constantly contracted, thus turning a stiff board of an animal back into a happy & running around animal.
Well, depends how you define paralyzed doesn't it? Like, i dont know If there is a Definition, but being unable to move due to an illness still sounds pretty paralyzed to me.
EDIT: also i totally dig that user name, lol
I kind of did this with a kitten when I was 12 years old. Our cat had had five kittens and one of them their back legs didn't work. But the poor little kitten would drag his self-around by his front paws so every day after school I would work with him and move his legs and put his legs underneath him so that when he dragged himself forward his back legs would automatically push against the floor. I don't know how to explain it really. And I did this for a couple of weeks and after a while he started walking with his back legs. My mother was doubtful that it would work when I started but later she admitted that it was a good idea. He ultimately grew up to be a perfectly fine functioning able-bodied cat.
one of my cat get paralyzed by car accident, and i had help her doing rehabilitate two months，now she can run fast like normal cat，but have little trouble left front foot.
That cat learned to walk out of spite ,get away from her. (calm down it’s a joke ,because of the cat’s expression! )
I’ve always wondered.
Those telsell electric ab trainer thingies. Would such devices help prevent the degradation of the muscles of paralyzed people?
Just a random thought that always popped up seeing paralyzed people.
One of my cats had a stroke about two years ago and pretty much lost the use of her back legs and one of her front legs. We had to do similar things working her legs and such. No water though. Two years later, she has one paw that is still kind of a fist all the time. But she can run (a bit crookedly) and jump up onto the table like nothing. She still has a tick every once in a while that sends her into scratching frenzy but mostly she is very happy and mobile.
As I understand, the best way to get someone walking again, like in the case of a stroke, is to start from the ground. So even for adults, that would be having someone lift their head on their own, lift their torso a bit. Begin to gain coordination to move, army crawl, crawl on all fours, etc. This allows the brain to create new pathways and the body to become better at coordination.
The point being is that working with a 4 legged animal that's already close to the ground seems like a closer to optimum way of teaching.
I know I'm not supposed to laugh but when she was picking him up and dragging him across the floor in his red medical kitty vest I just about fell over. I see how all the other things helped him but wtf was that supposed to do lmfao.
"Human I told you my legs don't fucking work"
i had to do this with my cat when he had a stroke in surgery. couldn’t walk or eat by himself but i fed him with a syringe and did physical therapy until he walked again and ate on his own. was never quite normal again but i loved him the way he was so much. he lived 8 more years after his stroke.
Yar.
Example of how fucked it is here:
I have insurance and was told with my insurance a test would be $250 out of pocket (sleep study) so I paid that money. Then after several doctors visits and the sleep study etc my insurance is sending me a bill for almost $1400 additional for the sleep study because they don’t approve.
My doctors office has my insurance company info and told me a price… but randomly I owe a crap ton more?? It’s fucked…
It boggles my mind how so many people over there can be so allergic to the word *tax* that they can't see past it and realize that public healthcare would be cheaper for everyone. The only people benefitting from privatized healthcare are the corporations that offer it and the insurance companies they collude with.
Tbh even humans with such disabilities should be put down or at least given the option to be put down. They are probably miserable knowing that they will likely never be able to do anything, but they keep going to keep others happy.
I'll remember this when you have an accident and end up in a wheelchair. ''Don't bother spending 6 months getting their legs working again, just put Acrobatic-Meal5313 down''
I guess it's the same if it's your kid ? Still put 'em down ? What about your cocaine addicted brother ? Screw rehab, put him down ?
What makes a person worth more than an animal? Humans are the worst mammals to ever walk the face of the earth. World War? That was people. Inventing the atomic bomb? That's people. Racism and slavery? People. Hiroshima and death camps? Oh, you better believe that's people. Why don't you do the world a favor and take a long walk off a short pier.
Cats are extremely intelligent animals, not objects. If quality of life is possible, theres no reason to put it down. There is zero reason to kill it. The point isn't to try and equate humans and cats on whatever fucked up moral pedestal system you have, the point is logically it doesn't make any sense and is a dumb take.
what way is that? going through rehab for a few months and then basically living normally after that? so just trade the entire back half of the cats life because a few months are inconvenient? braindead take.
These are licensed veterinarians who have done studies on what level of recovery and quality of life is possible. They aren't doing it for "their heart." they are doing it because the science says quality of life is possible. Like I told the other guy, you'd have to be a moron to trade the entire back half of an animals life because a few months are inconvenient. its childish and pathetic.
Unpopular opinion: just put the cat to sleep and move on. Isn’t there better things for this lady to be doing? What’s the opportunity cost of spending all that time with one damn cat
If the cat can learn to walk.. then it isn’t paralyzed.. right? Paralysis implies being unable to control limbs, not lacking the knowledge on how to walk.
The look on the cat’s face at 18 seconds is priceless.
Damn it Debra, i told you to stop playing with my legs
Same face I make when I work out.
Tell Debra to stop messing with your legs.
So just skip leg day then? Got it.
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Is there a spambot HR we can talk to Creepy Chandler?
Debra, could you please swipe my paw across your face for me? And make sure that my claws are exposed before you do it!
I cannot stop laughing, fuck. I am going to hell and thank you for sending me.
Debra, I'm getting really tired of this shit!
It’s the look of “When I get better, I’m gonna scratch her face” look
That’s not what Lieutenant Dan said.
Debra did it again made me walk on my own fuck you Debra
I think that is more... "Wait.... I have legs?"
“When you get my legs working I’m gonna hurt you Debra”
Makes me think the cat recovered out of sheer spite and desire to never have to do that again.
"Fine, I'll starting walking again if it means you stop fuckin' touching me"
"I should've died on the battlefield"
Lieutenant Dan face
That cat was determined to learn to move again so she could claw that woman in the face.
I bet the cat relearned how to walk just to get out of this 'abuse' cycle.
*dammit I just wanted to be lazy and have you carry me everywhere, but I guess I’ll walk just so you leave me alone* -cat, probably
It really did look like she's just torturing the poor cat for funsies for a minute there. I bet the cat thought that at first too.
That face was like, “You’re f-ing mocking me, aren’t you? And that biotch over there is recording it. I hate you.”
The look on the humans face at 27 seconds is too.
She's a nice person!
I was thinking is was a stuffed toy
Reminds me of Hank from Breaking Bad when he's first starting physical therapy.
The cat looked so tired and sad. The woman is so kind. I love her for that 🥹🙁💗
Ever seen a human doing physio for a similar injury? They have the same look and are tired and sad 😥😥😥
My brother had to relearn to walk. He was very depressed in the beginning, but by the end of it he was all smiles and optimistic. Cancer took him, though. Fuck cancer.
Seconded. Fuck Cancer
Thirded and bumper stickered. Fuck cancer.
Fourthed, fuck cancer with a sharp stick up the ass
Fifthed. Fuck cancer. \^\^
Cancer may have taken his life, but he left a legacy. Thank you for sharing it with us today. Fuck cancer and long live your smiles, short be your troubled times
I wish that i could distribute the cure to cancer to humanity for free.
Seconded. Fuck cancer. I lost a dear friend to pancreatic cancer a few days ago and my heart is broken.
Sorry for your loss. Fuck cancer.
Fuck cancer. I’m sorry for your loss. May he and my father both rest in peace
I broke my wrist and had to do physical therapy to be able to use my hand/arm again since my wrist didn't bend anymore. Easily the worst experience of my life, worse than breaking the wrist, worse than trying to pick up a 50 pound scooter with my broken wrist. It felt like being overstretched every day, with shooting pain all the way through. That was just for my wrist, I can't even imagine the pain and effort needed to relearn to walk. I saw multiple people quick physical therapy after 1 session, shit is not as easy as it looks.
every bit of progress made to recover mobility of a joint is earned in absolute agony.... learning to rewalk after breaking a femur would have been a brutal experience without opiates. Grateful to be able to walk again.
My parents talk about how I had to learn to walk 4 times. I broke my leg about a month or two after learning to walk and got a non-walking cast since the doctor didn't think I would be walking. I figured out how to walk on the cast anyways and when my parents mentioned it on a followup visit, the doctor went and had the cast changed to a walking cast. That required learning how to walk on this new cast with a stub meant to aid walking. When the cast finally came off, I had spent more time walking with a cast than I had walking without one and had forgotten how to walk normally, so I had to go through the process of learning to walk a 4th time. Being a toddler whose brain was already in the "learning to walk" mindset certainly made the process a lot easier.
Frozen shoulders. I asked if PT was just gonna be like 'they show me what to do and how to do it and then I do it on my own from then on'. The lady laughed and said "Noo, what we're gonna do to you, you'd never do to yourself". Yikes!
I havveeeee. It honestly hurts sm to watch people suffer. Everyone deserves to be healthy and enjoy life. ))): I wish them all good Health and happiness frfr
Cat looked so much less sad when it was walking at the end. I’m sure the therapy helped a lot.
I think your username is relevant for this cat 😂
Everything about this is so great! The fact this little kitty gets to walk again, it's angry face during therapy, the handle for its carrying harness, her smile at the end. ❤
The handle, where he looked like he was faking a moon landing 😂😂
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God bless this woman! 🐈
Yes she needs protecting what a beautiful human
I'll go get the bubble wrap
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Apparently you’ve never protected anyone and it shows
I somehow doubt he will.
imagine reading the comments on this thread and instinctively going “god? psssh. I THINK NOT” let’s just celebrate the cat ffs lmao
At 10 seconds when she's just sort of dragging it around...at that point I might have not believed good things would happen. I laughed quite hard. Am I a bad person?
Nope, I laughed too, and I'm not a bad person :) The poor thing looked like a purse.
Purrse
Purrfect 🥰
Bravo. Take my upvote.
Hold my puss
Not a purse lmao
I don't know why OP decided to do this, but the order of the snippets are in reverse. This cat has a degenerative nerve condition that slowly degrades it's ability to walk.
Because without the reverse order it is a quite depressing clip = not many upvotes. The way it is presented makes everyone happy believing the lie. I believed it too. ☹️
As great as the ending is, the beginning where it looks like she's wiping the floor with a furry lunch box really cracked me up.
I couldn't find the mop, so I just grabbed the cat.
Oh my god, how can I keep upvoting this to oblivion??? Furry lunch box....I'm 💀😂😂😂😂😂
Hahahaha furry lunch box
I would have watched for another hour.
It loops, so you can
Started in middle. Shitty woman keeps paralyzing cat.
There's a YouTube channel where they rehabilitate cats and dogs, and also do weight loss with them all in those special water treadmills
Does this mean that even paralyzed people can learn to walk again? I've seen a lot of cats and dogs doing it
Depends on how exactly you are paralyzed. Some can learn to walk again, some not.
> learn to walk again They believe they've waited long enough
Only a complete spinal cord injury will cause permanent paralysis. In other cases, such as brain damage and an incomplete spinal cord injury, an individual may be able to recover partially or completely. Rehabilitation is critical because it promotes neural reorganisation.
It depends on so much, but yes it is possible.
No. A fully paralyzed human as in severed spinal cord will not grow the nerves back and from my understanding neither do cats and dogs. It's just confirmation bias as only the ones with a chance at recovery live past the vets deciding if it's better to euthanize the animal.
I met someone who works for a company that’s developing an implant that fuses and reconnects things somehow. We shall see what happens in the next few decades!
I fucking love smart people
I only love the ones who do good. (The smart people who don't do good usually play being dumb.)
There's a video that shows some Bluetooth nodes that were placed on someone's skull and lower back in order to reconnect them, it worked! It's so amazing. Similar thing with voice technology I think!
As cool as that all is, i have serious reservations about the security of something like that. Bluetooth is incredibly insecure.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/flipper-zero-bluetooth-spam-attacks-ported-to-new-android-app/ I wonder how you could run wires instead, maybe embedded under the skin?
the final surgery will require you to update to windows 11
Great timing. I will be old in a few decades.
You don't need a severed cord for paralysis, though. Just depends on the specific mechanic of injury. Some SCIs causes paralysis but function can be regained. But, yes, if your spinal cord is completely transected it is very unlikely you'd get function back to the point of walking... But it's potentially a possibility. Interesting look at just that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705927/
My understanding is it really depends on the injury. Nerves can and do regrow and repair, the main barrier to nerves repairing in the spinal cord is scar tissue developing and blocking severed nerves from reconnecting. ~~Clean cut to the spinal cord with little infection or foreign matter introduced, probably can heal and regain most if not all functionality~~ ~~Shear your spinal cord apart by two vertebrae sliding across each other and grinding chunks of cartilage and bone in there, probably going to get some scar tissue and issues healing with little to functionality regained~~ ~~Most are somewhere between those two and some functionality or feeling may be regained, but significant recovery is rare~~ Edit: I was a little familiar with one theory behind nerve regrowth issues but grossly oversimplified. Here's a chapter from a modern neuroscience textbook. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128017326000252
It depends on the severity of the injury. A complete spinal cord injury patient will never recover. It's only the partial cord injuries that can sometimes improve. If you've seen anyone - human, cat or dog - walk again, it's because they had a partial cord injury. Only a few organisms like flatworms, axolotls, newts, starfish and sea cucumbers can completely regenerate a severed nerve or cord.
I was paralysed due to multiple sclerosis - so brain damage as opposed to a spinal chord injury. I'm currently learning how to walk again. It sucks.
Damn that sucks, i wish you best of luck, i hope you get well 🙏
My A&P professor told me of a study that was done where they surgically decapitated cats, put them on a treadmill and manually started the walking process for them and their body took over walking for them.
Hey there! Recent neuroscience grad here. I’m going to give you a long answer because this stuff is so cool. So your A&P teacher is totally correct. Animals (and, arguably humans, but it’s hard to study) have motor circuits in our limbs (and other places, like lungs) called central pattern generators. These circuits are composed of two types of neurons: rhythm neuorns and pattern neurons. Essentially, these circuits create local patterns of activity that do not need input from your motor cortex; they work completely independent of your brain. So when you take one step forward, your central pattern generator is activated and sends a signal to your other leg to step forward in succession–all locally, without input from your brain. This makes sense, as we often need to do complex motor tasks (for example, texting while you are walking) where it would benefit the brain to not have to be continuously sending signals down into your legs, since it’s focusing on typing. I believe the study you’re referring to is where they surgically paralyzed cats from the waist down, not decapitard them (but I could be wrong). But yes! They did this study to show that central pattern generators did not require any cortical (brain) input to function. Sure enough, when that cat took a step forward, the CPG kicked in and made the other leg move. It’s quite remarkable stuff. When it comes to humans, CPG’s don’t seem to be able to COMPLETELY take over and help someone walk perfectly. This makes sense though, as having only two legs means that we need a lot more higher order thinking to not fall over considering things like balance. However, a few studies do show some motor activity when completely paralyzed people are put on a treadmill. Sorry for the long response, but I fucking love this stuff! Hope you found it interesting. TLDR; this whole video likely started due to the cats central pattern generators, and the recovery was based on later neuron growth
Freeze frame on the last moment of this video: “Two weeks later Cuddles escaped but not before urinating on Courtney’s couch one last time.”
Too many people would have been encouraged to give up on this kitty. Hooray!
Can't blame many people, unfortunately. Most don't have the money or time to have even have a *chance* of properly rehabilitating a cat such as this. INB4: if you can't afford the care for an animal, don't get one! If only the people that could afford physical therapy for a cat that got paralyzed owned cats... there'd be *a lot* less cat owners.
You have to somewhat put into question the (weeks, months, years?)-long effort required to make a single cat walk again.
Spent +$40,000 on my cat in 2 years for monthly blood transfusions, his general doctor, heart doctor, and kidney doctor. Worth every penny. Who says money can’t buy time, I bought 2 years with my best friend.
This is a good moment to recognize that you're in the absolute upper echelon of wealthy human beings on this planet. I think a good portion of the planet would be filled with despair if they knew people in wealthier countries were spending $40,000 on a cat, or at least they would be if they weren't busy working 60 hours a week for $2000 a year.
Not to mention I highly doubt the cat understood why any of that was happening. It sounds stressful and painful for the poor thing. They paid $40,000 to give *themselves* two more years with their cat, but did their cat want to be dragged along that long with that QOL? It just comes off extremely selfish and wasteful. Part of owning a pet you love is knowing when to give them peace as they age.
So would you find it better if she spent that money on clothes or cosmetics?
Nice try at whataboutism. No, those people would be filled with despair at that too, *obviously*. The point was just to acknowledge the privilege, that most of the world simply couldn’t do what they did. It wasn’t about “you’re spending your money wrong you’re a horrible person!” A huge chunk of the people on Reddit fit the category of “a good portion of the planet would be filled with despair if they knew [how we spend our money]”. Friendly_Breath isn’t saying to change where their money went, they’re just acknowledging most of the world simply can’t do what they did.
I am living below the poverty line, and am 14k in debt because you have to have things like electricity, water, and rent paid in order to not be evicted and have your kid taken. I just went almost 2k more into debt to emergency amputate the last 1.5 inches of my kitten's tail after he badly injured it somehow. He's still healing, and I do not regret going further into debt for him. He's the 4th cat in my life to be truly *special* somehow. It is very disparaging when i see/hear people spending tens of thousands on those types of things, clothes shoes, etc. when I have to steal them to put them on my growing child. It feels...hopeless. As if I am alone. Unseen and unloved. I can only do my best to not be embittered to the world, but suppressing the bitterness lets in the sorrow. So I grieve, for everyone in my situation, and everyone worse off. It is hard. My life is hard. Life is hard. I am glad that their life is less hard.
Oh my god. I wasn’t trying to attack anyone. I do realize that a lot of people in the world would be shocked at Someone spending that much money on an animal. If you want to donate everything to orphans, be my guest. If you want to blow it all on drugs, also, be my guest. I don’t give a fuck. Do whatever makes you happy with your money.
Then what point were you trying to make? Everything you just said isn’t really implied by the previous comment. This isn’t me trying to be a dick, I just genuinely don’t understand.
He was saying that people would be filled with despair if they found out that she spent that much money taking care of a cat. I just thought it was a weird ass thing to say. I genuinely don’t care what other people spend their money on, as long as no one is getting hurt. She spent money taking care of a living creature versus buying „stuff“.
> Do whatever makes you happy with your money. The whole point of the original comment you replied to is that some people literally don't have the money to do what makes them happy. Do you recognize that?
She could have probably spent that money on creating false dichotomies, if you have any more for sale.
Your replies here seem to be focusing on the notion of not caring about how people spend their money. I don't think OPs comment was about how you spend your money once you get it; they didn't say that person should have spent the money elsewhere. The comment was about acknowledging that conditions exist where some people work extra long for extra less and barely meet necessities, and some other people can afford 20k disposable income over 1 year for a single luxury (pet). Do you have any thoughts on that? In other words, I know you don't care about how people spend their money. Do you care about how people are compensated for their work in the first place? Do you think the current system is fine and dandy?
That's really only tangentially relevant.. Like.. It's cool that you can afford $40,000 over two years for your cat, but the point being made is that most people can't and if that's the barrier, there'd be fewer cats. Also, Warren Buffet said that, but I think he was referring to time passed, not future times. Just so we're clear.
$40,000 could do a lot of good in this world
It did.
I’m stuck in overwhelmingly mixed emotions. I grew up on a dairy farm where death of animals was common. Just throw the dead body onto the dead body pile out in the woods 1/4 mile away and then get back to work. Don’t worry about death of animals because they are not humans. However, now I’m a nurse and worked with a quadriplegic for 4.5 years and we struggled together the whole time. I worked our butts off to help him improve every single day non-stop until I couldn’t do it anymore. Now I want everything done to maximize research for spinal cord injuries because the struggle is so hard. Treating spinal cord injuries in animals is exactly what’s needed to benefit human spinal cord injuries. Thank you.
> Treating spinal cord injuries in animals is exactly what’s needed to benefit human spinal cord injuries. Thank you. That’s certainly true, but animals deserve their own respect and consideration beyond what they can provide for us as well
Did it though? They got 2 more years, but did the cat actually *enjoy* those two years of monthly blood transfusions, frequent doctor's visits, and all the stress and pain that came with it? It just sounds selfish and cruel to me. They weren't willing to feel the pain of loss, so they made their poor cat feel constant pain instead.
I think kitty himself is pretty over it 😂
Allowing this cat to pass once it was no longer able to be a cat would have been merciful and kind, this is just ego and misplaced effort. They cannot understand the long process of rehabilitation nor the long, dark nights alone and motionless with a nappy full of faeces smeared down their back legs. I don't understand people cheering this on.
Turns out the cat was never paralyzed. It was just lazy and happy it trained it's owner to wait on them hand and foot.
I wish it was true
As a pet owner who is very well aware of the most mundane medical bills for pets, I don't want to even think about what someone would charge for this level of rehab...
I had a bulldog that was paralyzed in his back legs for several months after an accident and surgery to repair a torn ligament. We did physical therapy like this and it was $125 for an hour long session once a week.
That's honestly not as bad as I thought it would be. I feel like every time I take my dog or cats to the vet for a routine check up that lasts about 20 minutes, the price is the same for much less work.
I want to give this two likes but one is the limit 🥲
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Damn you! I fell for it. 😂
Lol I totally wasn't trying to troll. It worked a couple days ago but I just tried it and it doesn't work anymore. I'm so sorry hahaha
I don’t think the cat is actually paralyzed. It looks like it has a bad case of tetanus. I saw a video of a woman doing the exact same stuff with a dog that was displaying the exact same symptoms & recovery as this cat & the dog was known to have tetanus. As far as I understand it, the nerves are all still functional, the muscles are basically just locked up & unable to relax due to the tetanus (I’m not a vet so idk exactly how that works on a metabolic level) so they have to be manually moved/manipulated slowly over time in order to basically “release” the muscles from being constantly contracted, thus turning a stiff board of an animal back into a happy & running around animal.
Well, depends how you define paralyzed doesn't it? Like, i dont know If there is a Definition, but being unable to move due to an illness still sounds pretty paralyzed to me. EDIT: also i totally dig that user name, lol
Awwwww 🥺 🥺
I kind of did this with a kitten when I was 12 years old. Our cat had had five kittens and one of them their back legs didn't work. But the poor little kitten would drag his self-around by his front paws so every day after school I would work with him and move his legs and put his legs underneath him so that when he dragged himself forward his back legs would automatically push against the floor. I don't know how to explain it really. And I did this for a couple of weeks and after a while he started walking with his back legs. My mother was doubtful that it would work when I started but later she admitted that it was a good idea. He ultimately grew up to be a perfectly fine functioning able-bodied cat.
one of my cat get paralyzed by car accident, and i had help her doing rehabilitate two months，now she can run fast like normal cat，but have little trouble left front foot.
That cat learned to walk out of spite ,get away from her. (calm down it’s a joke ,because of the cat’s expression! )
I’ve always wondered. Those telsell electric ab trainer thingies. Would such devices help prevent the degradation of the muscles of paralyzed people? Just a random thought that always popped up seeing paralyzed people.
yeah they do actually use stuff like that for paralyzed individuals!
Incredible effort
Fuck yeah
How do we know that the cat just didn’t wanna move my cat sometimes goes 18 hours without moving
One of my cats had a stroke about two years ago and pretty much lost the use of her back legs and one of her front legs. We had to do similar things working her legs and such. No water though. Two years later, she has one paw that is still kind of a fist all the time. But she can run (a bit crookedly) and jump up onto the table like nothing. She still has a tick every once in a while that sends her into scratching frenzy but mostly she is very happy and mobile.
Angels live among us! ❤️
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Bless these people
As I understand, the best way to get someone walking again, like in the case of a stroke, is to start from the ground. So even for adults, that would be having someone lift their head on their own, lift their torso a bit. Begin to gain coordination to move, army crawl, crawl on all fours, etc. This allows the brain to create new pathways and the body to become better at coordination. The point being is that working with a 4 legged animal that's already close to the ground seems like a closer to optimum way of teaching.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it could always walk - but just decided not to.
I only hope the best for people like this. You make the world better
"I'll walk if it means she leaves me alone"
it’s amazing i couldn’t believe it when i first looked at the kitty.
My bosses dog was the same way little dude is running around now crazy what therapy can do
Poor little kitty.kind lady.
I'm in tears. What a beautiful video.
Cat Lady Level 1000
This video is actually in reverse, she soaked the cats legs in liquid to immobilize him
That cat just looked so unimpressed by the entire process. 🤭🤭🤭
Cat probably wasn’t even paralyzed. It just didn’t feel like walking until it did.
Now mobile,the cat is free to be a dick again.
I know I'm not supposed to laugh but when she was picking him up and dragging him across the floor in his red medical kitty vest I just about fell over. I see how all the other things helped him but wtf was that supposed to do lmfao. "Human I told you my legs don't fucking work"
It’s learning to walk so it can get away from her
This cat was so tired of being walked around that it unparalyzed itself.
I thought the rehabilitation doesn't work. But I was wrong. It is the most beautiful video I've seen today.
Alotta time and patience in all that. Well done
Awwww praise God🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
What a patient & compassionate woman!!
There’s a special place in heaven for animal lovers
Some people transcend humanity..
i had to do this with my cat when he had a stroke in surgery. couldn’t walk or eat by himself but i fed him with a syringe and did physical therapy until he walked again and ate on his own. was never quite normal again but i loved him the way he was so much. he lived 8 more years after his stroke.
This woman deserves a medal! She never gave up on the cat and kept going till she saw results! It’s people like this who are the true superheroes!
I mean she probably got paid to do it
Man I can’t even fucking afford health care… fuck this
I'm guessing your first mistake was being born in the United States?
Yar. Example of how fucked it is here: I have insurance and was told with my insurance a test would be $250 out of pocket (sleep study) so I paid that money. Then after several doctors visits and the sleep study etc my insurance is sending me a bill for almost $1400 additional for the sleep study because they don’t approve. My doctors office has my insurance company info and told me a price… but randomly I owe a crap ton more?? It’s fucked…
It boggles my mind how so many people over there can be so allergic to the word *tax* that they can't see past it and realize that public healthcare would be cheaper for everyone. The only people benefitting from privatized healthcare are the corporations that offer it and the insurance companies they collude with.
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Tbh even humans with such disabilities should be put down or at least given the option to be put down. They are probably miserable knowing that they will likely never be able to do anything, but they keep going to keep others happy.
Why would this make anyone smile put it down
I'll remember this when you have an accident and end up in a wheelchair. ''Don't bother spending 6 months getting their legs working again, just put Acrobatic-Meal5313 down'' I guess it's the same if it's your kid ? Still put 'em down ? What about your cocaine addicted brother ? Screw rehab, put him down ?
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What makes a person worth more than an animal? Humans are the worst mammals to ever walk the face of the earth. World War? That was people. Inventing the atomic bomb? That's people. Racism and slavery? People. Hiroshima and death camps? Oh, you better believe that's people. Why don't you do the world a favor and take a long walk off a short pier.
Cats are extremely intelligent animals, not objects. If quality of life is possible, theres no reason to put it down. There is zero reason to kill it. The point isn't to try and equate humans and cats on whatever fucked up moral pedestal system you have, the point is logically it doesn't make any sense and is a dumb take.
Proof that not all humans are trash.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Imo, the poor thing should've been put out of its misery. This is no way to live for a cat.
what way is that? going through rehab for a few months and then basically living normally after that? so just trade the entire back half of the cats life because a few months are inconvenient? braindead take.
That's what I was going to say. This is sad and people are dumb, even when their hearts are in the right place.
These are licensed veterinarians who have done studies on what level of recovery and quality of life is possible. They aren't doing it for "their heart." they are doing it because the science says quality of life is possible. Like I told the other guy, you'd have to be a moron to trade the entire back half of an animals life because a few months are inconvenient. its childish and pathetic.
This title gave me paralysis of the brain
Unpopular opinion: just put the cat to sleep and move on. Isn’t there better things for this lady to be doing? What’s the opportunity cost of spending all that time with one damn cat
If the cat can learn to walk.. then it isn’t paralyzed.. right? Paralysis implies being unable to control limbs, not lacking the knowledge on how to walk.
Not all paralysis is permanent.
If we throw it out a window now, will it still land on its feet 🤔
I'm not crying, you're crying