Youtube is hardly a good place to get medical advice. It sounds like a classic scam. Short on details, long on success stories. If it is so good, you can give details about it.
No independent medical research on a medical issue means I generally will not stake an opinion, and that is the case here. A promo video to me is not “documentation”.
I had a stroke October of 2016. The imaging related to that event identified an unrelated astrocytoma which was removed in January of 2017. That was followed by radiation and a year’s worth of chemo- just finished my last round of chemo in February. Lots and lots of PT to get functionality back, along with plenty of support (and the occasional kick in the pants when I was feeling sorry for myself) from family and friends.
I wish there was a miracle drug that’d magically resolve the issues following TBI, but I’m more than a little skeptical.
The doctor in the video is Edward Tobinick. According to his Wikipedia article, he was doing dermatology and laser hair removal prior to getting into neurology with Entracept. Seems a little outside of his previous areas of expertise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tobinick
The drug he’s using is called Etanercept. As mentioned in the video, that’s not his discovery- it’s an existing pharmaceutical he’s using off label. It is already approved for use in cases of arthritis. It’s interesting that the drug’s manufacturer isn’t advocating it’s use for strokes etc- since that would seem to be a huge market to expand into for an already existing pharmaceutical-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etanercept
The breakthrough here then has to be the method of delivery, injecting it into the spine gets it past the blood brain barrier? It doesn’t seem like that would be difficult to study/replicate by other doctors, there certainly would be no shortage of potential patients seeking ANY improvement to their post-stroke condition, even if it was not nearly as profound as the lady featured in the video.
There was an article very critical of Tobinik’s claims-
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/enbrel-for-stroke-and-alzheimers/
Run.
Fast and far.
Half of me believes it the other half has no feeling about it whatsoever.