A high school dancer had her life changed forever when she suffered a spinal cord stroke last year, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down. Elle Yona, 17, from Miami was doing backflips at a ...

A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device into his spinal cord that sends signals to his legs. “I can now walk with much more ...

In a new study, Gauthier was surgically implanted with an experimental spinal cord neuroprosthesis to correct walking disorders in people with Parkinson’s disease.

The spinal cord runs from the base of the brain to the lower back through a canal in the centre of the vertebrae. Credit: Zephyr/Science Photo Library Researchers have developed a four-dimensional ...

Paralyzed man can walk again after scientific breakthrough A 40-year-old man whose legs were paralyzed in a cycling accident 12 years ago can walk again thanks to implants in his brain and spinal ...

The latest study results have been published online in the renowned "The Lancet Neurology" journal. A multi-centre clinical trial (NISCI trial: Nogo-A Inhibition in acute Spinal Cord Injury Study ...

Alexa Alexander said she turned to spinal cord stimulation in 2023 after exhausting nearly every other option for her severe back pain. "In 2023, I had a horrible back issue.

Callahan has a spinal cord injury, so he wasn’t supporting all of his own weight or moving his legs by himself. But something had changed. He had a little bit of sensation in his feet.

The current system does not fix all spinal cord paralysis. But the team was hopeful that further advances would make the treatment more accessible and more systematically effective.