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Surgery Helps Incontinent Urinate Upon Scratching Thigh

Bladder and bowel incontinence are two of the lesser known, but significantly more irritating aspects of damage to the spinal cord. Doctors in America are taking cues from the Chinese to help a 7-year old michigan Michigan girl with spina bifida overcome at least one of those obstacles. But now, Emily has to deal with […]

Bladder and bowel incontinence are two of the lesser known, but significantly more irritating aspects of damage to the spinal cord. Doctors in America are taking cues from the Chinese to help a 7-year old michigan Michigan girl with spina bifida overcome at least one of those obstacles.

But now, Emily has to deal with bladder problems that developed from the spina bifida and depends on help from her parents and adults at school daily.

"She can't really go to a friend's house after school or sleep over," Mary Jo Schneider said. "It's nothing major. We've dealt with it."

Doctors in Michigan have examined Emily and declared her a good candidate for the surgery. If it works, it will give Emily the ability to pee-on-command by scratching her thigh.

The article fails to mention it, but nerve rerouting also works to give people the ability to poo-on-command. Scratching would provide relief.

Sniffing? Maybe not.

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