Deep brain stimulation helps two patients walk after spinal injury
As the team explained, deep brain stimulation involves the implantation of electrodes into specific brain areas to help direct neural activity. It's long been used to treat illnesses such as Parkinson's disease and tremor.
Breakthrough deep brain stimulation therapy restores walking after spinal cord injury
A spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to partial or complete paralysis. But recent breakthroughs suggest an unexpected brain region could play a critical role in restoring mobility.
World-first: Deep brain stimulation enables paralyzed patient to walk again
In this clinical trial, the participants received deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a region of the brain called the lateral hypothalamus (LH).
Deep Brain Stimulation Restores Walking in Two Paralyzed Patients
Deep brain stimulation to the lateral hypothalamus has improved lower limb movements in two people with partial spinal cord injury.
Paralysed patients able to walk short distances after having electrodes implanted in their brains
In a world first, surgeons have used a technique called deep brain stimulation to "re-awaken" dormant nerve fibres in the spinal cord and re-establish control of the leg muscles.
Paralysed patients able to walk again after undergoing world first brain surgery
Two people who were paralysed have been able to walk again after being implanted with electrodes in their brains.
Hypothalamic DBS therapy improves recovery of lower limb movements after spinal cord injury
Researchers at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), led by professors Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have achieved a major milestone in the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI).
Stimulating hypothalamus restores walking in paralyzed patients: Study
Researchers at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), led by professors Gregoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have made significant advances in the treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI). The scientists boosted the recovery of lower limb movements in two people with partial SCI by delivering deep brain stimulation (DBS) to
Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Two Patients Walk After Spinal Cord Injury
In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation technique is helping the 54-year-old Jäger walk and move again.
Brain stimulation can help injured people walk: study
Scientists said Monday that electrically stimulating a particular region in the brain could help people with injured spinal cords walk more easily, with one patient describing how the technique allowe
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