Three paraplegic patients who could not move or feel their legs walked again thanks to an implant that electrically stimulates your spinal cord, an advance that could be generalized in a few years, indicated a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
This technology has allowed three paraplegics “to return to standing, walking, cycling and swimming,” according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
The three patients, all men, not only could not move their legs but they had lost all feeling in them as a result of accidents that damaged his spinal cord.
The spinal cord, contained in the vertebral column, is a extension of the brain and controls many movementswhich can be lost if contact with the brain is damaged.
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In the case of the three patients, it was possible to reverse the situation.
In Lausanne, a team led by Swiss surgeon Jocelyne Bloch and French neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine implanted about 15 electrodes that allow electrical stimulation various areas of the spinal cord.
This is not a first, but the culmination of ten years of treatment of this type with the aim of turning it into a therapy that changes the lives of many people.
Three paraplegics manage to walk with electrical stimulation
The idea of sending an electrical current to regaining lost movement dates back several decades and it was put into practice for the first time in 2011, when a paraplegic was able to get back on his feet. (I)
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