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.

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