Jackson’s Massive Miracle & DMSO’s Role In Reversing Paralysis

There is extensive evidence for DMSO’s ability to regenerate spinal cord injuries in paralysis and transform spinal medicine.

“We used to think that the damage caused at the moment of injury in a severe head or spinal cord injury was irreversible. There is still a little bit of time before the injured cells die. Based on what we’ve seen in animal studies and a handful of human situations, we think that if you can treat a head injury victim within a few hours of the injury, or a spinal cord victim within one hour, there is a good chance of preventing death or the paralysis that would otherwise occur.” ~Dr. Jack de la Torre

(This is an abridged version of a much, much longer article about the remarkable utility of DMSO by A Midwestern Doctor (AMD) which focuses on paralysis only. I have shared more on DMSO for Lungs, COPD, and Asthma here. Also on DMSO for Brain, Spinal Injuries and Arthritis here.)

This story will rivet you and should change how we treat (and even be prepared for) accidents causing paralysis.

U.S. high school hockey player Jackson Drum crashed into the boards at an awkward angle while playing in Canada. He suffered the same catastrophic injury that paralyzed Christopher Reeve from the neck down. The doctors kept telling his mom he would never breath or eat on his own. But one doctor told her about DMSO… This is the story of Jackson’s journey as told by his very resourceful mother Erica.

A fascinating 44 minutes. Watch till the end..

(At the end is how Jackson’s mom used DMSO topically, where to get it, and tips for safe use.)

Spinal Cord Injuries & Paralysis

As much of the same pathology that causes permanent damage in the brain also occurs in the spinal cord (the loss of blood flow and compressive post-traumatic swelling), DMSO can produce miraculous results. Despite decades of research, steroids remain the standard treatment, even though they’re largely ineffective and come with significant and lasting side-effects. In fact, spinal surgeons often use steroids simply to avoid lawsuits. (source)

The greatest success comes when DMSO is administered intravenously within 90 minutes of injury. For example, dogs that were expected to be paralyzed after spinal cord trauma regained nearly normal function after DMSO treatment.

DMSO prevents spinal cord injuries from causing paralysis, and in humans numerous miraculous stories exist, such as a 16-year-old quadriplegic girl gradually regained organ function and eventually walked after a year of DMSO therapy. Even older injuries see results — one man, paralyzed for 12 years, regained some feeling and movement after using a DMSO lotion.

There are reports of it being used in post-polio syndrome:

Her husband’s leg muscle was dying, painkillers didn’t help, he’d cry outside each night & his neurosurgeon said his drop foot was incurable.

She put DMSO on his leg, in 5 minutes half the pain was gone & in 8 weeks the dead muscle started growing back—and 600+ studies show why.… pic.twitter.com/jzd9H44aAH

— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) September 19, 2026

Remarkably, veterinarians have been using IV DMSO for spinal and neurological conditions in animals for decades. When a horse goes down and can’t get up from a severe neurological problem, IV DMSO is often standard practice. When a dog is hit by a car and paralyzed, many reports exist of IV DMSO routinely getting them walking again. Multiple veterinarians who contacted me (AMD) described personally witnessing “miraculous recoveries” in paralyzed animals, and veterinary textbooks from the 1980s that already listed IV DMSO protocols for brain and spinal cord injuries. Yet in human medicine, a spinal cord injury patient is told nothing can be done and to prepare for a life of severe disability.

Since central nervous tissue does not regenerate, spinal cord injuries are classically considered incurable.

However, as the pioneers of DMSO, Stanley Jacob and Jack de la Torre MD both discovered, if DMSO is given intravenously shortly after a spinal cord injury, paralysis can frequently be prevented or reversed. De la Torre found that giving DMSO to dogs shortly after injuries that typically produced permanent paralysis spared them from it, with almost normal function returning within weeks, and concluded that if a severe spinal cord trauma is treated with intravenous DMSO within 2 hours, paralysis may be prevented. Jacob, meanwhile, reported that three patients who arrived paralyzed (at 5, 6, and 9 hours post-injury, far beyond what was thought recoverable) were treated with IV DMSO, and two of the three regained the ability to walk.

How DMSO Facilitate Regeneration of the Central Nervous System

One of DMSO’s most remarkable properties is its ability to facilitate regeneration of the central nervous system (which otherwise does not heal), due to its having a variety of properties including (source):

• Powerfully facilitating the polymerization of microtubules—which cells require to divide (discussed in the first article)
• Differentiating stem cells into neurons (both of which were discussed in the previous article)
• Restoring circulation to the nerves (discussed in the first article)
• Stabilizing cell membranes (discussed above) and reducing chronic inflammation (which often disrupts cellular repair)
• Preventing demyelination and promoting remyelination (discussed below and in the first article).
• Enhancing electric field-induced nerve branching (new branch growth from existing nerves is how damaged neural pathways reconnect, a process the CNS environment normally suppresses).

Numerous readers have reported that DMSO regenerated and repaired their nerves. Two of the most remarkable ones were:

•A reader’s husband developed drop foot from a fall compressing a nerve, with the front leg muscles “basically dying” and pain severe enough to require near-overdose levels of opioids. DMSO was “a massive game changer, the only thing giving relief from nerve damage.” After eight weeks of topical use, “muscle had started growing back, an inch above ankle and inch below knee, which Neurosurgeon has no answer for and is in disbelief.” This muscle regrowth enabled a compression test and subsequent nerve release surgery, and two weeks post-surgery, he was walking better without his foot brace.¹

•Rebecca (who has been filming the DMSO testimonials I’ve posted like Todd’s) had her lower leg crushed in an accident over 10 years ago, requiring multiple surgeries, tissue transfer, and skin grafts. Despite numerous treatments, she had persistent poor circulation and extensive numbness throughout the scarred area. After two weeks of daily DMSO with aloe vera,^⬖ blood flow visibly increased into tissue that had turned gray and purple, sensation began returning to areas numb for 9.5 years, and as time goes on, more sensation returns.¹

More ‘A Midwestern Doctor’ Testimonies. Here are Just a Few on Paralysis:

Note: prior to DMSO, Rosa could not feel beneath her waist and had been told she would be a permanent paraplegic (the virtually certain outcome for her injury). After an earlier DMSO article I published described Rosa’s miraculous recovery from starting DMSO five days post-injury (based on the above comment from Dr. Grindle), Mary Beth Pfeiffer tracked her down in Ecuador and corroborated that it indeed happened (all of which is detailed here). Rosa and her grateful husband understandably feel more people should know about DMSO and wish she’d received it sooner after the injury.

A Midwestern Doctor writes: The greatest benefit occurs when DMSO is given within 90 minutes of injury, with higher doses also increasing the speed and likelihood of recovery.^1,2,3  The sooner to an injury, the more dramatic the improvement is:

“Dr. Jacob was treating eight quadriplegics; and of them only one had presented a recent injury. He felt, as do most doctors, that treatment is more fruitful in new than old conditions. The one fresh case was that of a sixteen-year-old girl, a fine athlete, who dove off a board and landed on her neck on the bottom of the pool. Her doctor was pessimistic but willing to try almost anything that offered a glimmer of hope. She was a complete quadriplegic—utterly helpless. She was on DMSO for an entire year. Gradually—one by one, it seemed—her organs began to function again. Eventually she walked. And now she is in college, doing very well.”

However, at the same time, DMSO can often provide significant rehabilitation for far older injuries. (source for the following stories)

“An Orange County, California, engineer suffered a severe back injury in an automobile accident. He was paralyzed below the point of injury and was confined to a wheelchair. However, his spinal cord was not severed. It did suffer damage, but there was no break. DMSO treatment was offered, but this man refused the treatment. He was convinced that it would not work, and he would never walk because a few months after the accident he still had no feeling in his legs. Twelve years after the accident this man changed his mind and decided to try topical treatment with a DMSO lotion. The lotion was applied twice a day to the entire back of this patient. After three months this man was able to move the toes on his right foot. He never regained the ability to walk, but the treatment restored some feeling and the ability to move a part of his body below the injury site.”

“Our son had been in a coma due to an auto accident. After six months in the hospital we brought him home. His Drs. said that he would probably never regain bladder control. In 1973 he became a patient of Dr. Jacob. Within months of using DMSO he had full bladder control.”

“We have had experience at our medical school in Oregon with two patients in which DMSO was given as early as an hour after what was considered an irreversible injury—an immediate, complete quadriplegia—and in both people there was total recovery with them walking out of the hospital,” said Dr. Jacob.”

“The neurosurgeon told me [his mother] that henceforth [my son] Grey’s only motion would be to move his head from side to side and grin [due to a C4-C5 fracture that had blocked the cord there]…Grey listened attentively and thought a minute; then said to the doctor, “One day I will swing my legs off my bed and I will offer to bet you I am going to walk. In insisting that her son would find help, Dorothy Keinsley did not delight all the doctors. “One doctor bellowed at me like a bull moose in rutting season,” she said. “Don’t you know your son is paralyzed?” He screamed. I explained that no one knew it as well as I.” Grey read Ann Sullivan’s article about DMSO…He wrote to Dr. Jacob, and his physician made the tests Jacob had required. On February 13, 1965, Dr. Jacob came to [Grey’s] Littleton [CO] home free of charge and swabbed Grey’s neck with DMSO.
‘The most dramatic change happened that first day,” Dorothy told me. “Grey had had a constant pain in his right shoulder from the time of the accident, and he had learned to live with it. Late that day, Grey discovered the pain had gone. He was almost incredulous. He expected the pain to return, but it never has. “Other improvements were gradual, as Dr. Jacob had predicted they would be.” Note: Gray made remarkable improvements which eventually stopped (but did not regress) due to the FDA unconscionably revoking the medical use of DMSO.

DMSO can often provide significant rehabilitation for far older injuries (e.g., an engineer who had been paralyzed made remarkable improvements from DMSO 12 years later, and a college student with severe injuries including a C4-C5 fracture who began DMSO nearly two years post-injury gradually regained sensation, limb movement, and hand function over the following years—whose progress halted when the FDA unconscionably revoked DMSO’s medical use—but nonetheless healed enough to graduate).

Likewise, one AMD reader shared that his feet had been paralyzed for 13 years; after starting oral DMSO, he was walking without braces after three months and a veterinarian who practiced in the 1970s reported personally witnessing “many miraculous recoveries” in dogs and cats paralyzed after being hit by cars after they received IV DMSO. (source)

As far as I know, no formal studies on DMSO after spinal injuries have been conducted in humans. However, this study showed that DMSO prevented the degenerative changes in spinal cord nerves after blunt trauma), and a variety of corroborating animal studies, all of which led the leading researcher in this field to conclude that if a severe spinal cord trauma is treated with intravenous DMSO within 2 hours, paralysis may be prevented.

Animal Studies

Animal studies have simulated the spinal cord injuries (typically by exposing the cord and then applying a precise blow to it), after which the recovery of DMSO treated animals is compared to untreated animals and placebo. The results are often quite remarkable. This for example came from De La Torre’s research:^1,2,3

•In cats, DMSO was shown to improve functional recovery from spinal cord injuries by 169.57%.^1,2,3

•In rats paralyzed by a traumatic spinal cord injury, within 5 days, DMSO significantly improved motor function although no corresponding harmful histological changes could be observed within the spine.^1,2

•In dogs, IV DMSO and spinal surgery resulted in the recovery of walking, running ability, cortical-evoked potentials, and histological improvements (less cavitation, meningeal hyperplasia, and necrosis of the cord), whereas dexamethasone (a steroid), reserpine and hypertonic dextrose did not offer any improvements.

• In dogs with injuries that caused permanent paraplegia in all 9 untreated controls, over 6 weeks, 6 DMSO treated dogs fully recovered, 2 showed improvement, and 1 had no response to DMSO.

When the blood supply to the spinal cord was cut off in dogs, DMSO was shown to prevent ischemic damage to the spinal cord and paralysis.

Lastly, a 1983 veterinary textbook for horses highlighted that IV DMSO (0.9-1.0 gm/kg) at 30-40% once a day for 3 days (followed by once a day every other day for 3 more days) was a very helpful for brain and spinal cord injuries or paralysis in horses (including when they were comatosed) and noted that other veterinarians used 1g/kg of 10% DMSO in 5% dextrose). It also noted that in horses with cervical vertebrae lesions compressing the spinal cord, veterinarians had success giving 1cc/kg of DMSO in 1 liter of saline every other day until improvement was noted.

There is much more that could be added here on paralysis, but for the sake of introduction only,

DMSO Product Resources: 

Formulations by The DMSO Store [newest, possibly purest, high GMP standards]. AMD’s Recommended DMSO Sources:

• DMSO Liquid Pharmaceutial Grade 4 oz. 99.995% Purity, Low Odor, Non-Diluted, Glass Bottle with Dropper

• DMSO Gel 4.oz Non-diluted 99.995% Low Odor Pharma Grade

• DMSO 70/30 16 oz. Gel with Distilled Water 

• DMSO spray bottle which can be diluted with distilled water

• DMSO Non-diluted Roll-On, 3 oz.

• DMSO 70%/30% Aloe Gel Roll-On, 3 oz.

Gels vs. Liquids:

Gel can be easier to apply and a bit less messy, but liquid is less irritating and what AMD uses. Many suggest starting with DMSO Store non-diluted liquid roll-on on clean, dry skin to get a feel for the product.

There is als0 Jacob Lab [there is a 99.98% pure liquid, a 70% solution, and a 70% gel

Also Nature’s Gift [there is a 99.9% pure,  a 70% solution, and a 70% gel. AMD has used for a long time] (only gel is available on manufacturer’s website)

DMSO Patch Testing:

One of the challenges of using DMSO is that there’s significant variation in what each individual best responds to. 

There is a very small risk (1 in 1-2000) of an allergic reaction, so it’s generally advised to begin by patch testing DMSO on the skin before taking it orally. *If used topically, some individuals may experience itching, tingling sensations, and irritation for the first few times, which are normal. If you experience any signs of an allergic reaction (e.g., swelling), wash the affected area and discontinue use. (Please know that it does not actually harm you cellularly, but for some it can feel uncomfortable.) (source)

How to Patch Test:

• Select a Small Area: Choose a discreet spot.

• Apply a Tiny Amount: Use a small quantity of the product.

• Wait and Observe: Leave it on for 24 hours unless you notice irritation sooner.

• Proceed if All’s Good: If no reaction, feel confident in using the product as intended.

Because of this, you essentially have two options, and have to decide which is right for you:

1. Be patient and start with a low dose that you can build up.

2. Start with a stronger dose and agree not to hold it against me or DMSO if you don’t tolerate it.

In my previous articles, I’ve advocated for #1. Still, many understandably started with a high dose as they did not want to wait for the results, a very few of whom then shared they’d had a skin reaction that made them hesitant to continue using DMSO.

Administration – Oral and Topical

AMD outlines that when using DMSO, there are two common routes of administration: oral and topical. (source)

Topical Use:

1. I typically suggest starting with topical DMSO before taking oral DMSO. For more systemic issues (e.g., joint pain throughout the body or low energy), oral administration is often necessary (and in many cases works well if done in conjunction with topical DMSO).

2. Start with 30-50% topical DMSO and see how you tolerate it. Mixing DMSO with water will generate heat, which is normal

When applying topically, it is essential first to clean and dry the area to which it will be used.

You can use a liquid directly applied with your fingers or an organic (not synthetic) cotton facial pad. A gel is simply rubbed into the skin. Let dry about 20 minutes before putting on any clothing.

3. If you have no issue, gradually raise it to 70%. People rarely react to 70% topically and is the best balance between safety and efficacy.

4. Only raise it topically past 70% if you are certain you are one of the many people who is fine with 100%.

Oral Use:

5. For oral dosing, start with a (1) teaspoon of 70% or 100% DMSO mixed into a glass of water (you may also want to add juice to eliminate any DMSO taste).

6. If you experience issues with that, try lowering the dose to half a teaspoon in water.

7. Otherwise, stay at (1) teaspoon for at least three days, and then if you think you need a stronger effect, go to 2 teaspoons.

8. Consuming more than 3 teaspoons of liquid in a glass of water is excessive. At that point, it is best to divide the dose throughout the day.

9. With both topical and oral DMSO, people generally find that their tolerance to it IMPROVES over time. (Mine did).

10. Conversely, if used too frequently a tolerance can develop, so it’s typically advised to take it only 5 days a week.

The key point is that everyone has a different tolerance to DMSO. 

Higher doses are often more effective (and many users use 100% undiluted without any issues whatsoever), still, it’s best to start with a low dose and be patient. 

Dilution Options, Including For Different Areas of the Body

• You can apply 70% topically as it is, or mix it with equal parts of purified water to get it to roughly 35%.

• You can also do this with 100% DMSO. Dilute it to roughly 50% by mixing it with equal parts of purified water – or to roughly 33% by mixing it with two parts of purified water. 

(AMD personally prefers the liquid because it’s easier to control the total dose with them, more gets into the body, and liquid DMSO tends to be less irritating. Gels hold the advantage of continually releasing DMSO into the body over a prolonged period and are much easier to apply. As a result, the choice you make is largely a matter of personal preference.)

This is a general guideline on what’s appropriate for these parts of the body:

External Use (Skin) Concentration:

• Spine Issues or paralysis (70%)

• Legs/Feet: (70%)

• Arms/Torso/Neck: 40–70% (50% typical)

• Head (some go up to 50%) easier to use a spray bottle (diluted to your preference with distilled water) directed to the scalp (with cotton towel around neck)

Application: 2–3 times daily, adjusted based on skin sensitivity and response.

Precautions: Avoid >15% on surgical stitches to prevent brittleness.

Skin Reactions Information:

• Irritated skin (e.g., redness, itching, or burning) normally temporary and passes (and often becomes less likely with subsequent doses of DMSO).

• Higher concentrations of DMSO on the same spot can create scaling on the skin. Try different nearby areas.

• Most skin issues occur with 90% rather than 70%.

• DMSO will create NORMAL sensations in the skin (e.g., warmth, a bit of numbness, a pulsation or a prickling)

I have used DMSO myself and continue to treat my varicose veins rather successfully with it. I provide this information for your convenience and to point you to A Midwestern Doctor‘s more in depth post The Evidence DMSO Could Save Millions From Brain and Spinal Injury.

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