A team of Swiss surgeons have implanted electrodes into the spines of three people who are paralysed, helping them to walk again
Research aiming to reverse paralysis seems to be among the most glamorous areas of medical research. As such, it tends to get a lot of media coverage, sometimes getting overhyped as “medical miracle” type stories. When I first pitched the news to my editor, I told her the story sounded too good to be true.But I was wrong. In this case, a team of Swiss surgeons implanted a suite of electrodes onto nerves coming out of the spine, which the recipients control using a computer.
An important caveat is that only three people have had the operation. So far, it has gone well for all of them, which is obviously encouraging. But the scientists have warned that the technique must be tested in larger groups of people before it becomes more widely available, and this will take several years.
Roccati made points I hadn’t previously considered. He found enormous satisfaction simply from being able to stand in a bar and have a drink with friends face to face – or from having meetings standing up with his work clients. He likes to go for a walk every day even if he has nowhere in particular to go.journalist Melanie Reid on her experiences after she became tetraplegic after falling from her horse, and how she has adjusted to her new life.
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