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Paraplegic man walks with own legs again Sept 24, 2015 5:28:12 GMT -8

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This is something new!

A man who lost the use of his legs to a spinal cord injury has walked again after scientists rerouted signals from his brain to electrodes on his knees. The 26-year-old American has used a wheelchair for five years after an accident left him paralysed from the waist down. Doctors said he was the first person with paraplegia caused by a spinal injury to walk without relying on robotic limbs that are controlled manually.

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kilg0retr0ut Advanced Member Posts: 2,507 Post Likes Received: 1,862 Date Joined: July 2013 Injury: L4/5 Cauda Equina Date Injured: 7-15-10 Member is: Offline Send PM	Paraplegic man walks with own legs again Sept 24, 2015 7:33:40 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kilg0retr0ut on Sept 24, 2015 7:33:40 GMT -8 Science rocks! Technology is moving so fast, I can't imagine a possible cure being that far off.
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joemonte Member Posts: 172 Post Likes Received: 257 Date Joined: July 2013 Injury: T-10 Complete Asia "A" Date Injured: March 10, 2007 Member is: Offline Send PM	Paraplegic man walks with own legs again Sept 24, 2015 7:53:33 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by joemonte on Sept 24, 2015 7:53:33 GMT -8 Great Article. Hope keeps me going. Someday we might get a second chance.
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Paraplegic man walks with own legs again Jul 6, 2017 10:29:00 GMT -8

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Sept 24, 2015 7:33:40 GMT -8 kilg0retr0ut said:

Science rocks! Technology is moving so fast, I can't imagine a possible cure being that far off.

Precisely. It is more a work-around than a cure, but InVivo Therapeutics is on the right track. Once that thing is approved for implant the sky will be the limit when collaborators try to add medicines or cells to it. The Neuro-Spinal Scaffold needs to be approved first and that will be the key to open the door since it is used soon after injury. It will change the standard of care for better and allow incrememtal improvements like cells to be added in.

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Paraplegic man walks with own legs again Jul 6, 2017 10:42:15 GMT -8

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"Researchers at the lab stressed that they had only tested the brain-computer interface on one patient and that many more patients would be needed for trials before they could assess its more general usefulness for people with paraplegia. Details of the study are reported in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation."
www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/24/paraplegic-man-walks-with-own-legs-again

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Paraplegic man walks with own legs again

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