"Accidental miracle" restores sight.

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This could be very good news for glaucoma patients.


https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-nat...rUz7PlV0fc

"Scientists are calling it "an accidental miracle" after research aimed at alleviating chronic pain was found to restore the sight of a Dunedin woman who has had an acute form of glaucoma for more than a decade.

Now University of Otago researchers are trying to replicate the result, in a bid to create new treatments for people with vision loss.
Prominent author Dr Lynley Hood (80) fractured her pelvis in a fall in 2020, and has had severe lower back pain ever since.
So she decided to participate in a University of Otago chronic pain treatment research project involving the placement of a cap on her head, wired with electrodes that use electrical currents to stimulate the brain.

There were two study groups — the main group, who received the electrical stimulation into the brain, and the placebo group, who had the electrical current pass across their scalps.

Dr Hood was part of the placebo group, and over the four-week period, her eyesight steadily improved to nearly 100%, Dr Adhia said.

"Surprisingly, her vision improved so much that her ophthalmologist said it was a miracle.

"Miracle is not a word we use very often in science, but it was — an accidental miracle.

"It wasn’t the intended outcome, but to see that my research has actually made an impact with people is really miraculous."