A breakthrough neuromodulation system rapidly restores motor function in patients with a severe spinal cord injury (SCI), new research shows. The study demonstrated that an epidural electrical ...

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Aly Raisman is sharing her “scary” health struggles after being hospitalized twice for stroke-like symptoms. The Olympian revealed on “Call Her Daddy” Wednesday that she could “barely speak” and was ...

Nerve transfer surgery has enabled 13 young adults with complete paralysis to regain movement and function in their elbows and hands, according to the largest case series of this technique in people ...

A new rehabilitation approach has enabled eight paraplegic patients to regain feeling and movement in their legs. The high-tech training program uses virtual reality and feedback from robotic ...

A man who was paralysed from the shoulders down has been able to feed himself and drink as a result of a novel neuro-prosthesis which reconnects his brain with his muscles. A system that decodes brain ...

A 39-year-old man who had had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily control his leg muscles and take thousands of steps in a "robotic exoskeleton" device during five days of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generating language: Neural data recorded by an implanted brain–computer interface are decoded and analysed in real time to control spelling software. (Courtesy: The Wyss Center, Geneva) Scientists ...