After Spinal-Cord Stimulation, Can Paralyzed People Walk Again?

Abstract

It's a remarkable advancement that could affect hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. It's also the culmination of decades of multidisciplinary study that has slowly established an evidence base in animal studies with the scientists involved often facing scrutiny for doing so and carefully transferred that work into the clinic. Researchers have been working on a variety of ways to heal and reactivate the spinal cord following an injury for a long time. Many methods are highly successful in regenerating and restoring function in mice and other animals, but they do not apply to human treatments.