{"id":164485,"date":"2023-05-24T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/paralysed-man-walks-again-via-thought-controlled-implants"},"modified":"2023-05-24T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:22:18","slug":"paralysed-man-walks-again-via-thought-controlled-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/paralysed-man-walks-again-via-thought-controlled-implants","title":{"rendered":"Paralysed man walks again via thought-controlled implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paralysed-man-walks-again-via-thought-controlled-implants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts for the first time, researchers said on Wednesday, thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>The patient Gert-Jan, who did not want to reveal his surname, said the breakthrough had given him \u201ca freedom that I did not have\u201d before.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Dutchman has been paralysed in his legs for more than a decade after suffering a spinal cord injury during a bicycle accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts for the first time, researchers said on Wednesday, thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and spinal cord. The patient Gert-Jan, who did not want to reveal his surname, said the breakthrough had given him \u201ca freedom that I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164485","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}