{"id":87015,"date":"2019-01-24T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T04:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/three-paralyzed-men-have-walked-again-after-receiving-electric-jolts-to-the-spine"},"modified":"2019-01-24T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T04:02:21","slug":"three-paralyzed-men-have-walked-again-after-receiving-electric-jolts-to-the-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/three-paralyzed-men-have-walked-again-after-receiving-electric-jolts-to-the-spine","title":{"rendered":"Three paralyzed men have walked again after receiving electric jolts to the spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-paralyzed-men-have-walked-again-after-receiving-electric-jolts-to-the-spine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three men with severe spinal cord injuries have walked for the first time in years after receiving targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breakthrough:<\/strong> Spinal cord injuries can severely reduce a person\u2019s range of motion or lead to complete leg paralysis. In two new papers published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-018-0262-6\" target=\"_blank\">Nature<\/a> <\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0649-2\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Neuroscience<\/a>,<\/em> researchers describe implanting electrical stimulators into the damaged spinal cords of three men who all had partial or complete lower-leg paralysis. The stimulators then delivered targeted electric pulses in time with the patients\u2019 walking gait.<\/p>\n<p>The patients wore a series of sensors on their legs and feet that wirelessly communicated to the stimulators as they began to walk. Within a week, the men were able to leave the treadmill and walk on the ground with continued electrical stimulation. After a few months, they regained the ability to walk without any electrical stimulation at all.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612360\/three-paralysed-men-have-walked-again-after-receiving-electric-jolts-to-the\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612360\/three-p...ts-to-the\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men with severe spinal cord injuries have walked for the first time in years after receiving targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord. Breakthrough: Spinal cord injuries can severely reduce a person\u2019s range of motion or lead to complete leg paralysis. In two new papers published in Nature and Nature Neuroscience, researchers describe implanting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87015","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=87015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}