{"id":135307,"date":"2022-02-07T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/electrical-spinal-implant-helps-paralysed-man-have-child-bbc-news"},"modified":"2022-02-07T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:22:45","slug":"electrical-spinal-implant-helps-paralysed-man-have-child-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/electrical-spinal-implant-helps-paralysed-man-have-child-bbc-news","title":{"rendered":"Electrical spinal implant helps paralysed man have child \u2014 BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HuBm4mlMYRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David M\u2019zee was 22 when an injury damaged his spine, leaving him paralysed 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, an electrical implant to his spine enabled him to stand and walk slowly by boosting the nerve signals to his legs.<\/p>\n<p>He uses the device for short periods to exercise his muscles and practise walking, and says that even when it\u2019s not turned on, it\u2019s brought such an improvement to his health that he\u2019s been able to have a child.<\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe HERE <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David M\u2019zee was 22 when an injury damaged his spine, leaving him paralysed 12 years ago. In 2017, an electrical implant to his spine enabled him to stand and walk slowly by boosting the nerve signals to his legs. He uses the device for short periods to exercise his muscles and practise walking, and says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}