Building on an initial study in 2011 by Susan Harkama in which Rob Summers was able to make stepping motions on a treadmill and stand briefly following spinal cord stimulation implants, researchers are set to expand a pioneering treatment that uses electric currents to stimulate damaged spinal cords, allowing patients to initiate voluntary movement Their most recent subject, 26 year old Calven Goza, was paralysed below the chest two and a half years ago, and told he would never move his legs again. Using electrodes in the spinal cord to help signals from the brain, he was able to move his toe and knee.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:22:00 +0000
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