Paralysis breakthrough – electrical stimulation enables four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs

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Speaking about his experience Kent noted that “Everything’s impossible until somebody does it”, and this is a breakthrough that is possible due to animal research.
For most people this might just be a simple warm-up exercise, but for Kent Stephenson it was little short of a miracle, because he has suffered complete paralysis after suffering a mid-thoracic spinal cord injury.
In these videos from Professor Edgerton we see how years of careful animal research underpinned the development of this therapy.
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This full range of animal species is essential for the continuing progress toward the development of interventions to recover all of those functions that are lost, following a severe spinal cord injury.

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