After a traumatic motorcycle collision in 2017, Michel Roccati was left completely paralyzed from the waist down. He couldn’t have imagined that a few years later, he would be walking through the ...

A paralysis cure rests in an early study of an implant that brings an epidural electrical stimulation to a person's spinal cord and it already helped three men from walking again. The EPFL's study ...

In 2018, Grégoire Courtine, PhD, associate professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Jocelyne Bloch, MD, neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), published ...

Scientists at the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, and the department of biomedical engineering at Tel Aviv University have generated ...

A system that restores communication between the brain and spine has enabled a man paralyzed by a spinal cord injury to regain near-natural walking ability. Once the patient’s brain activity was ...

For decades doctors and researchers have dabbled with using electrical stimulation of the spinal cord to help restore movement in people with paralysis. The technique, when combined with physical ...

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands & LAUSANNE, Switzerland & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ONWARD Medical N.V. (Euronext: ONWD), the medical technology company creating innovative therapies to restore movement, ...

Paralysis might soon be a thing of the past. That is, if these early experiments prove to be good enough. A team of researchers from Chicago's Northwestern University managed to make paralyzed mice ...

The best moment in Reneé Ford’s life came the day her son Chase, then 2, tried to kick his doctor. It was July 2005, and that angry gesture marked the first time the boy had moved below the neck in ...

Chris Bey suffered a serious neck injury at the end of October 2024. The former TNA World Tag Team Champion was left paralyzed after a freak accident in the ring. Various efforts by those within the ...