"He does one-legged squats now," Cody said, with a laugh. Now her father talks without slowed speech, he's confident enough to drive on the highway, he can roll down the window in his car, and he no longer drags his left leg behind him. "Within five minutes, he was saying how clear his head was," Cody said. Hollywood, Fla., resident Jennifer Cody said the treatment gave her 59-year-old father, a former outdoor maintenance man, renewed independence 18 years after his stroke. Improvements also were recorded in many patients' range of motion, pain and cognition, as well as their ability to speak, see, swallow, concentrate and maintain bowel control. Of the total studied, more than 80 percent saw improvements in their ability to walk more than 80 percent had less spasticity and more than 85 percent exhibited improved motor function. 1 in the Adis medical journal, "CNS Drugs," Tobinick's Institute of Neurological Recovery gave etanercept injections from November 2010 to July 2012 to 617 stroke patients and 12 patients who had suffered a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Hours later, with some of her left eye vision returned, she could see the phone clearly enough to dial a number for the first time since her illness. Within minutes of receiving the injection on Monday, Anna Alfaro walked without a cane, got up from a chair more easily and regained sensation in her left arm. Rene Alfaro, an ophthalmologist from Mexico, of the single-dose injection that almost instantly restored much of his wife's movement and cognition more than a year after an aneurysm and subsequent stroke incapacitated her left side. His patented method for delivering the anti-inflammatory medicine, etanercept, to the brain is getting praise around the world as a "radical breakthrough" in the treatment of chronic neurological dysfunction. The 25-milligram shot at renewed independence is the brainchild of Boca Raton, Fla., physician Dr.