{"id":185116,"date":"2024-03-14T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/paralyzed-man-walks-again-using-only-his-thoughts"},"modified":"2024-03-14T20:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:26:29","slug":"paralyzed-man-walks-again-using-only-his-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/paralyzed-man-walks-again-using-only-his-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed man walks again using only his thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paralyzed-man-walks-again-using-only-his-thoughts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 12 years I\u2019ve been trying to get back my feet. Now I have learned how to walk normal, natural.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A paralyzed man is walking again thanks to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/actu.epfl.ch\/news\/thought-controlled-walking-again-after-spinal-cord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital bridge<\/a>\u201d researchers created between his brain and a spinal stimulator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 12 years I\u2019ve been trying to get back my feet,\u201d the 40-year-old Dutch man, Gert-Jan Oskam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/24\/science\/paralysis-brain-implants-ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told reporters<\/a> on May 23. \u201cNow I have learned how to walk normal, natural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The patient: <\/strong>Oskam was living in China in 2011 when he sustained a spinal cord injury that left his legs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/reversing-paralysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paralyzed<\/a>. About five years later, he had a spinal stimulator implanted below the site of his injury as part of a clinical trial in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor 12 years I\u2019ve been trying to get back my feet. Now I have learned how to walk normal, natural.\u201d A paralyzed man is walking again thanks to a \u201cdigital bridge\u201d researchers created between his brain and a spinal stimulator. \u201cFor 12 years I\u2019ve been trying to get back my feet,\u201d the 40-year-old Dutch man, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185116","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\/185116","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=185116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}