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 Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:35 am |
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Since nerves are fundamentally electric devices sending signals to the
brain, a fundamentally electric device too, it can be inferred that
pain is an electric phenomenon and can be induced or *stopped* by
stopping the transmission of the electrical signal throughthe brains. A
toothace should be stopped by simple touching the nerve with metal, to
disturb the elctrical isgnal (demagnetize?). This is the reason why
acupuncture works: by stimulating nerves with needles, metal, the
electrical current is disrupted and the pain signal doesn`t reach the
brain. Incidentally, this is the basis why schizophreics were being
treated with elctroshocks, to disrupt the working of the brain, though
withot being specific the technique was condemned to failure.
We should be able to control pain by applying systematicaly this
principle. I wonder if it can be done selectively, by distinguishing
nerves throughcific proteins and binding medications to those nerves to
disrupt the signal. Acupuncture should be considered an option. With
advanced technology (nanomachines?) we should be able to stoppain by
applying devices that automatically search nerve terminations and
demagnetize them.
Danilo J Bonsignore, previously known as Fabrizio J Bonsignore
[I believe there may be scripts changing my name somewhere in the
internet; my real name is the same as one calccio (figure where) figure
and matches that of one jockey figure in the Sam country] |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:55 am |
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`Smart needles` made of nanotubules filled with a suitable metal
filling to be inserted by pressure in touch with the nerves to
interrupt the electrix flux (discharge) of nerves in chronic pain.
Since nantubules are small and shorter (not yet long enough), they can
be used as disrupters. The needle would reside inside the muscle
(carbon is inert), whi the filling would help discharge the electric
signal causing pain. The number of needles used can be used to control
how much current is drained from the pained nerve, so that chronically
painful nerve can be brought down to a normal level of pain or
completely desensitized.
Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:00 pm |
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Of course, other therapies for pain based on the same principle can be
thouht of without falling down to nanotechnology and without recurring
to severed nerves or mass medications. Basically, by controlling the
signal traveling through the nerves surgery procedures can be devised
to modulate the signal for particular illnesses.
But the same electric nature can be used, as an electric field must be
generated by the nerves, to help organizing molecularly nanomachines
within the body to peform other functions, not only to manipulate
signals through nerves but to serve as a foundation for the building
inside the body of more complex mechanisms. This weak fields can be
used as guidelines for the assembly of useful in-body nanomechanisms
from electric sensitive basic molecules.
Incidentally,
Danilo J Bonsignore, previously known as Fabrizio J Bonsignore
[I believe there may be scripts changing my name somewhere in the
internet; my real name is the same as one calccio (figure where) figure
and matches that of one jockey figure in the Sam country] |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:19 am |
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Is there any material which can change properties from being non
conductive to becoming conductive through the aplication of some kind
of input (current, contact, reversible chemical processes)? Such
material can be used as a permanent implant in touch with nerves, to be
activated in case of strong pains, as some kind of implanted acupunture
needle.
This can be useful for people undergoing long periods of strain or
subject to intermitent pains, or to be used in case of sudden
disabilitating injuries in risky profesions.
Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore |
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