Spinal cord stimulation helps paralysed patients stand and walk again / La stimolazione del midollo spinale aiuta i pazienti paralizzati a stare in piedi ed a camminare di nuovo Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa Susan Harkema, Ph.D., left, with research participant Kelly Thomas and trainer Katie Pfost Research groups in the US have demonstrated how implanted spinal cord stimulation technology could help patients recover from catastrophic spinal injuries. In one such development, a team from the Minnesota-based medical research centre the Mayo Clinic and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has used an implanted spinal cord stimulator to help a man paralysed from the chest down since 2013 regain his ability to stand and walk with assistance. The 29 year old patient, Jered Chinnock, injured his spinal cord at the thoracic vertebrae in the middle of his back in a snowmobile accident in 2013 and was diagnosed with
