{"id":168783,"date":"2023-07-31T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T03:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/paralyzed-ny-man-can-move-and-feel-again-thanks-to-ai-miracle-surgery"},"modified":"2023-07-31T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T03:24:58","slug":"paralyzed-ny-man-can-move-and-feel-again-thanks-to-ai-miracle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/paralyzed-ny-man-can-move-and-feel-again-thanks-to-ai-miracle-surgery","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed NY man can move and feel again \u2014 thanks to AI \u2018miracle\u2019 surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paralyzed-ny-man-can-move-and-feel-again-thanks-to-ai-miracle-surgery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Long Island man who was paralyzed in a diving accident has regained motion and feeling in his body after a breakthrough, machine learning-based surgery that successfully \u201cconnected a computer to his brain\u201d through microelectrode implants.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the successful case of Massapequa\u2019s Keith Thomas, 45, is being heralded throughout the medical world as a \u201cpioneer\u201d case for AI-infused surgeries to treat or cure impassible illnesses like blindness, deafness, ALS, seizures, cerebral palsy and Parkinson\u2019s, experts at Manhasset\u2019s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research boast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time a paralyzed person is regaining movement and sensation by having their brain, body and spinal cord electronically linked together,\u201d Chad Bouton, a professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/feinstein.northwell.edu\/institutes-researchers\/our-researchers\/chad-bouton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feinstein\u2019s Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine<\/a>, told The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Island man who was paralyzed in a diving accident has regained motion and feeling in his body after a breakthrough, machine learning-based surgery that successfully \u201cconnected a computer to his brain\u201d through microelectrode implants. Now, the successful case of Massapequa\u2019s Keith Thomas, 45, is being heralded throughout the medical world as a \u201cpioneer\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168783","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}