Three paralysed people have regained
the ability to walk, swim and pedal thanks to a new treatment
featuring electrodes implanted into their spines developed by a
group coordinated by the EPFL university in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
The system uses the electrodes to send electrical impulses
generated by a computer controlled by the patient to the muscles
of the legs and the torso to make the movements possible, as
documented by a paper published in Nature Medicine.
An Italian expert, Silvestro Micera, who works for the EPFL and
Pisa's Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, is part of the team behind
the breakthrough.
One of the three patients involved in the experimentation of the
system is Italian too.
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