An Ironman athlete, told she'd never walk again after an accident more than six years ago, is now part of an early clinical trial, in which skull and spine implants help patients move paralyzed limbs.

Incomplete spinal cord injury—Patients who have some sensation and control beneath the injury site ... Paraplegia—This means the injury affects the lower half of your body including the legs, torso, ...

In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, two people with spinal cord injuries ... ‘I feel my legs,’" she said ...

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.

“I started to feel this weird weakness in my legs, like 50% of the muscles ... Matt said he was told he had suffered a spinal cord injury during the operation. “My lead surgeon seemed pretty ...

Depending on the location of your injury, you may have lost some or all feeling and muscle control in certain areas of your body. There are two types of spinal cord injuries: Incomplete spinal cord ...

The exam will look for signs that indicate spinal compression, including abnormal reflexes, weakness, and loss of feeling in the legs and ... to spinal cord compression. While injury is the ...

The sensation in his legs persisted for about half an hour ... he spent another six weeks at The London Spinal Cord Injury Centre in Stanmore. On December 3, Matt returned to his parents' home ...

A Swiss research center is trying to use innovative technology to help restore bodily functions for paralyzed patients—and even help Parkinson's patients walk smoothly again.

The authors further noted that while SCS is being studied as an assistive neuroprosthetic tool to improve movement after spinal cord injury, stroke, and other neurodegenerative diseases ...

No doubt the videos of mice that are visibly able to regain function of their hind legs ... spinal cord is not completely severed, with some function or sensation remaining below the level of the ...

Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Two Patients Walk After Spinal Cord Injury By Ernie Mundell ... the first patient immediately said, ‘I feel my legs.’ When we increased the stimulation, she ...