I'm going to show a clip of one young lady.

He's a spinal surgeon, Ben.

Anyway, as you'll see in a moment,

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The bullet didn't touch her spine.

they gave me a spinal tap.

Something which requires a spinal tap.

So here's how it looks. Look at the region there.

She said, You are, because, see, it happens to everyone.

And the question I asked was, Why me? Why me?

People with spinal cord injuries,

The latest test results show a lost of corneal reflexes.

Too fat, I can't break the spine.

And that spinal tap, what did you want?

He was hurt badly Stayed at the hospital for six months.

We want this film to have such an impact that I could walk up to anyone on the street and say, Hi!

And I took the controls, and I was flying.

Look at the vertebrae, full of air sacs and hollows, like a bird.

The central nervous system is... your brain and your spinal cord.

Let me tell you, some of you may have the experience.

Guns hurt 'em but unless you sever the spine they keep comin'.

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

Once I cut the spinal cord and the sever nerve endings, you won't feel a thing.

You said he was a research pathologist.

This was a device that a nurse uses when they're doing a spinal procedure in hospital.

And if you trigger, if you stimulate with an electrode, the precise spot, you will trigger an orgasm.

Let me now introduce you to eLEGS that is worn by Amanda Boxtel that 19 years ago was spinal cord injured, and as a result of that she has not been able to walk for 19 years until now.

We are talking here about, oftentimes, very young individuals with spinal cord injuries, that in the prime of their life 20s, 30s, 40s hit a wall and the wheelchair's the only option.

literally cut me in half, I have a scar that wraps around my entire body.

Well the body works by starting a motor command in your brain, going down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to your periphery.

Any time you've got that close proximity to the spine, there's always going to be cause for concern, but, as I say, it's really too soon to tell.

I was airlifted from the scene of the accident by a rescue helicopter to a large spinal unit in Sydney.

It may help us understand why their spinal columns have been completely drained of spinal fluid.

I finally got it. Meningitis?

This can help people who lost the ability to move their hands,

He'd just been diagnosed with ALS, which is a disease that the average lifespan is three years.

She died. From meningitis?

From a posterior view again assess for asymmetry, atrophy, or skin changes.

It's a disease suffered by a subset of people diagnosed each year with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Some time ago, I made an enemy.

Instead of it being the case that that junction box in the spinal cord is just simple where one nerve connects with the next nerve by releasing these little brown packets of chemical information called neurotransmitters in a linear one on one fashion, in fact, what happens is the neurotransmitters spill out in three dimensions

This is the front of the brain, the back of brain with the spinal cord hanging down, and this is how it would be positioned inside of my head.

We'll be outside. It's meningitis, isn't it?

Livers and internal organs take a bit longer.

And the next morning, she knew if she could get to a nearby village where there was a foreign missionary, she would be saved.