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Hello fellow computer geeks, nerds and dweebs! I know this is a bit on the... unconventional side for tech questions, but it's an incredibly important one to me (life-changing in fact).
I've been a medical science geek much longer than a computer geek, and I'm at a bit of a stumbling block here....
So basically, I'm 31 years old and fed up with watching life pass me by because of (literally) crippling pain from a spinal injury. It's time to do something about it.
Mods: Please bear in mind - as any doctor or research paper will tell you - that while this may sound a smidge scary, there's truly zero possible risk to ones health in what I'm trying to do.
What I need:
Full, manual control of a CD-RW burner without any software/firmware telling me when it can or cannot fire the laser. I was thinking maybe some kind of software, or just a rudimentary On/Off switch in some kind of a jury-rigged autonomous system.
Newer drives (like DVD) are no good; only the old CD-RW burners provide the right optic wavelength, frequency and power output. So quite simply, I need to gain the power/control to simply tell the laser when to burn and when to turn off: regardless of whether there's a disk in there, the case is open, how many holes I might drill in the case etc.
If I can get just that far it would mean the world, but it would get me a lot further if I could also rig the laser to run on a rapid pulse at a custom frequency of my choosing.
Why I need it (for anyone wondering because they're as nerdy as me):
I'm working on a theoretical approach to catalyzing capsular-facet ligament regeneration (between the vertebrae); stimulating mitotic regeneration through targeted activation of stem cells that would otherwise lie dormant. I know what you're thinking but no, it won't set-off cancer cells.
An awful design flaw in all our bodies is that the vast majority of chronic, long-term back or neck pain comes from tearing these ligaments (in the dorsal zygapophysial joints of the spine) and yet, while the body is technically capable of healing these ligaments, it's unable to actually detect the specific point of injury and respond accordingly - rendering ligament regeneration (especially throughout the spine) extremely slow, if not altogether halted.
So after much research, thought and picking apart data from Google Scholar, I believe I've figured out a way to force the little eukaryotic bastards into getting busy and healing with the work ethic of our more competent outer-tissue cells.
My plan is to hook up some fiber-optic cables to a laser within an 800-870 nanometer wavelength in the Near-Infrared range, lace it through a syringe and fire away into pinpoint target sites at a few varying angles, into the ligaments. This narrow range is the only photonic wavelength that can easily penetrate human tissue unencumbered. There's a bunch of other configurations necessary to make it work, but this is too long already....
Pulsing this carefully-configured beam into ligament tissue (in particular) rapidly uncouples/recouples nitrates from Heme and Copper-based receptors in cation and ligand-gated ion channels, stimulating rapid mitochondrial ATP synthesis in ligament stem cells. By following this method - rather than the conventional (and insanely-expensive) prolotherapy methods of cytokine-induced regeneration - the ligaments can actually grow back as normal tissue rather than scar tissue.
Basically I've just gathered all the data on Low-Level Laser Therapy, refined it hugely from a 10-foot pile of research papers from around the world (because even LLLT clinic methods are way-behind in the details), and now I'm working on my own system.
Please bear in mind, the unwavering/universal catch-phrase "see your doctor" is a complete joke. TV portrays doctors as these brilliant bio-medical puzzle solvers; in reality their training consistently amounts to "I dunno.... take a painkiller, eat healthy, exercise".
Also, if any mods still have liability concerns: this is all for research purposes and my intention is to present the final design to scientists - in the interest of furthering human knowledge.
(No British spies were cut in half in the making of this laser).
Hello fellow computer geeks, nerds and dweebs! I know this is a bit on the... unconventional side for tech questions, but it's an incredibly important one to me (life-changing in fact).
I've been a medical science geek much longer than a computer geek, and I'm at a bit of a stumbling block here....
So basically, I'm 31 years old and fed up with watching life pass me by because of (literally) crippling pain from a spinal injury. It's time to do something about it.
Mods: Please bear in mind - as any doctor or research paper will tell you - that while this may sound a smidge scary, there's truly zero possible risk to ones health in what I'm trying to do.
What I need:
Full, manual control of a CD-RW burner without any software/firmware telling me when it can or cannot fire the laser. I was thinking maybe some kind of software, or just a rudimentary On/Off switch in some kind of a jury-rigged autonomous system.
Newer drives (like DVD) are no good; only the old CD-RW burners provide the right optic wavelength, frequency and power output. So quite simply, I need to gain the power/control to simply tell the laser when to burn and when to turn off: regardless of whether there's a disk in there, the case is open, how many holes I might drill in the case etc.
If I can get just that far it would mean the world, but it would get me a lot further if I could also rig the laser to run on a rapid pulse at a custom frequency of my choosing.
Why I need it (for anyone wondering because they're as nerdy as me):
I'm working on a theoretical approach to catalyzing capsular-facet ligament regeneration (between the vertebrae); stimulating mitotic regeneration through targeted activation of stem cells that would otherwise lie dormant. I know what you're thinking but no, it won't set-off cancer cells.
An awful design flaw in all our bodies is that the vast majority of chronic, long-term back or neck pain comes from tearing these ligaments (in the dorsal zygapophysial joints of the spine) and yet, while the body is technically capable of healing these ligaments, it's unable to actually detect the specific point of injury and respond accordingly - rendering ligament regeneration (especially throughout the spine) extremely slow, if not altogether halted.
So after much research, thought and picking apart data from Google Scholar, I believe I've figured out a way to force the little eukaryotic bastards into getting busy and healing with the work ethic of our more competent outer-tissue cells.
My plan is to hook up some fiber-optic cables to a laser within an 800-870 nanometer wavelength in the Near-Infrared range, lace it through a syringe and fire away into pinpoint target sites at a few varying angles, into the ligaments. This narrow range is the only photonic wavelength that can easily penetrate human tissue unencumbered. There's a bunch of other configurations necessary to make it work, but this is too long already....
Pulsing this carefully-configured beam into ligament tissue (in particular) rapidly uncouples/recouples nitrates from Heme and Copper-based receptors in cation and ligand-gated ion channels, stimulating rapid mitochondrial ATP synthesis in ligament stem cells. By following this method - rather than the conventional (and insanely-expensive) prolotherapy methods of cytokine-induced regeneration - the ligaments can actually grow back as normal tissue rather than scar tissue.
Basically I've just gathered all the data on Low-Level Laser Therapy, refined it hugely from a 10-foot pile of research papers from around the world (because even LLLT clinic methods are way-behind in the details), and now I'm working on my own system.
Please bear in mind, the unwavering/universal catch-phrase "see your doctor" is a complete joke. TV portrays doctors as these brilliant bio-medical puzzle solvers; in reality their training consistently amounts to "I dunno.... take a painkiller, eat healthy, exercise".
Also, if any mods still have liability concerns: this is all for research purposes and my intention is to present the final design to scientists - in the interest of furthering human knowledge.
(No British spies were cut in half in the making of this laser).