Michel Roccati lost the ability to walk after a motorcycle accident in 2017, when he had a complete spinal cord injury.But today, equipped with an electrode device implanted on his spinal cord, ...

think of it as a spinal pacemaker — being placed in the bottom left side of his back to help bridge the gap between his brain and his nerves. Now 20, Straschnitzki has since had three stem cell ...

Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and EPFL, Lausanne have succeeded in restoring motor function following spinal cord injury. The researchers were able to show that coordinated ...

Dr. Keith Roach, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: How does a person with a pacemaker die? Won’t the pacemaker keep the heart beating? My husband is 87 and on his seventh pacemaker. Please advise so that I know ...

An experimental, pacemaker-like device offers hope for treating spinal injuries. By Benedict Carey David Mzee broke his neck in 2010. He was a college student in Zurich at the time, an athlete who ...

The participants had 16-electrode devices implanted in the epidural space, an area between the vertebrae and the spinal cord membrane. The electrodes receive currents from a pacemaker implanted under ...