Electrical Stimulation Helped A Man With Paralyzed Legs Walk Again

Electrical Stimulation Helped A Man With Paralyzed Legs Walk Again

“For many patients, total lower limb paralysis caused by spinal cord damage means a lifetime in a wheelchair. But a new treatment might mean the diagnosis isn’t so permanent: A 29-year-old man paralyzed by a snowmobile accident in 2013 is walking again, according to a new paper, thanks to a device that delivers electrical stimulation to his spine.

“What this is teaching us is that those networks of neurons below a spinal cord injury still can function after paralysis,” said Kendall Lee, a neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic’s Neural Engineering Laboratories who worked on the treatment, in a press release…”

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