This doesnât improve my mobility by any means, and in fact it makes it worse. We currently have a 16 inch high tub and it would be so much better if I could make that from a 16 inch step in tub to a 6 inch step in shower with a seat that is permanetly installed.
Although such relationships, i.e., between tumor development and stiffness, have been established for a variety of cancer types, the mechanical properties of optic nerve glioma, as well as their underlying acellular causes, are unknown. The normal optic nerve is a complex tissue composed of numerous distinct cellular and extracellular components. Similarly, optic nerve gliomas harbor a unique collection of neoplastic (astrocytes and stem cells) and non-neoplastic (endothelial cells and microglia) cell types embedded within a rich ECM.
The optic nerve is a cable of nerve fibers that carry electrical impulses, containing visual information, from the eye to the brain.5) Finally, the fibers also have to be guided back appropriately to their original target to re-form functional connections. Each of these steps presents a great challenge to our efforts to repair an injured optic nerve. In the past, most attempts to promote optic nerve regeneration focused on only one of these steps.