Cord Injury, 4 Patients Return to "Walking" with Spinal Stimulation
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Milan, 7 sets. (Adnkronos Salute) - Four people with chronic and functionally complete chest bone marrow injury, without the ability to voluntarily contract the muscles of the lower limbs, have managed to maintain the upright position and return to walking with a walker thanks to a new mode of control of the electric epidural stimulation of the spinal cord. It is a strategy that exploits a very simple gesture: a slight voluntary extension of the…
Until a few years ago, such news could have seemed like science fiction. Or, to be more precise, fantasy medicine: a person with a chronic chest bone marrow injury, without any ability to voluntarily contract the muscles of the legs, who comes back to stand and walk. Not because the spinal cord spontaneously recovered the [...] L'articolo The standing movements and steps of four patients with bone marrow injury: so the trunk has become a remote …
One of the boys is Umbrian. Patients, paralyzed due to a complete and chronic spinal cord injury, were no longer able to contract the muscles of the legs. The technique was tested in the laboratory of implantable modular neuroprosthesis of St. Raffaele
The study of St. Raffaele and St. Anne of Pisa on Med: the step is commanded by a slight extension of the bust, without brain implants.
The study was published in Med - Cell Press. Here's how the innovative technique works
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