Swiss researchers report that the patients were able to do certain activities after just one day of practice.
Michel Roccati, one of the three men to test a prototype of a new spinal cord stimulator, walks at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland.After a motorcycle accident in 2017, Michel Roccati, 30, wasn’t expected to be able to stand on his own ever again, let alone walk. But on a sunny day in 2019, at the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, he walked across a promenade, thanks to the help of perfectly timed electrical impulses in his spine.
According to Dr. Eellan Sivanesan, director of neuromodulation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, most research thus far on spinal cord stimulation has been conducted in animals, and translating it to humans has been very challenging. He was not involved in the new research. Researchers have been slowly making progress on a solution for decades. The spinal cord is complex and after a traumatic injury, the neurons at the site of the injury die.
“The most important message is that this is more research showing you can stimulate the spinal cord below a very serious injury and get movements that would not be predicted by clinical prognosis,” she said. “That’s very important.”
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