New research reveals how a medical device helped one man with paralysis walk naturally again
Dr. Grégoire Courtine and colleagues from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne developed and implanted a “brain-spine interface” that creates a direct neurological link between the brain and spinal cord. Implants in the brain track intentions for movement, which are wirelessly transferred to a processing unit that a person wears externally, like a backpack.
But this new technology allows for smoother movements and better adaptations to changing terrain because it reconnects two regions of the central nervous system that were interrupted because of a spinal cord injury, according to the researchers. Oskam had been implanted with stimulation devices previously, but he had to make a movement to trigger the stimulation. “Now, I can just do what I want, and when I decide to make a step, the stimulation will kick in,” he said.
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