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Three Paralyzed Patients Walk Again With Breakthrough Spinal Cord Implant

One of medicine's oldest dreams has just taken a big step closer to reality. Three people whose spinal cord injuries left them largely paralyzed below the waist for at least four years used an electrical pulse generator implanted in their spine and crutches or frames to walk again. Now Lausanne University Hospital has announced a similar achievement in humans. Dr Jocelyne Bloch inserted implants into three patients to activate leg muscles. "All the patients could walk using body weight support within one week. I knew immediately that we were on the right path,” Bloch said in a statement. Read full article...