A Dutch man whose spinal cord was injured in a bike accident a dozen years ago can now walk thanks to stimulators implanted on his brain and spinal cord, according to a study published Wednesday.

For the first time ever, a human has successfully received an implanted device to enable movement of the arms, hands and fingers after a paralyzing spinal cord injury. Onward Medical NV, a medical ...

A man who was paralysed in a bike accident has regained the ability to walk for the first time in 12 years due to an innovative technology developed by researchers in Switzerland. Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, ...

Gert-Jan Osman, walking with the use of a "digital bridge," at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland (Jimmy Ravier) (CN) — In a breakthrough study that could represent a quantum leap in the ...

New research reveals how a medical device helped one man with paralysis walk naturally again, more than a decade after an injury.Dr. Grégoire Courtine and colleagues from the Swiss Federal Institute ...

New research suggests that paralyzed patients could regain some degree of movement — perhaps even walk again. In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne ...

Scientists Stéphanie Lacour and Grégoire Courtine of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are paving the way for new, intelligent neuroprosthetics that may one day assist ...

Grégoire Courtine is a neuroscience professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the ...