Manuel Bortuzzo spoke to his fellow students about his spinal cord injury and explains if he will be able to walk again
In the house of the Big Brother VIP Manuel Bortuzzo often spoke of his accident, the boy always seems to address the subject with serenity. Now, to the other tenants he spoke directly about his injury marrow.
With great hope, in fact, the young man dreams of being able come back to move partially the legs. it seems there is a possibility. Although he will not be able (at least for the moment) to regain full use of his legs, his mobility could improve and he explained:
Something can be taken back. Since the marrow is a very complex thing, it is not easy. You have to imagine a stuff with billions of filaments and connections, I have cut many of them, but some are still connected. Many are still intact therefore. The cures for all connections are almost impossible to think of. To be able to cure me you would have to take the right ones among the billions of filaments and connect them. Filament A and filament A and join them and so with all the others. It should all be connected perfectly. It is an almost impossible job. But despite this problem, the human body is led to recovery, not to die.
Another great hope is placed in the miracles of science, in recent years great strides have been made and precisely the new technologies could help Manuel Bortuzzo in the recovery:
Something can be created that bypasses the peripheral problem. So only a few basic things are needed. The link to give the right degree of knee flexion to hold the legs. Then it takes some movement in the thigh and quadriceps. I will be able to recover what has been saved. For other minor things it will be necessary to act externally with interventions. As long as I can, while I am alive, I will commit myself. I will not say not to do the operations. The doctors with me were clear on what I can recover. If it were ‘no, it’s impossible’, they would have told me.