Deep Brain Stimulation Helps 2 Patients Walk

Health Rounds: Brain stimulation helps restore walking after paralysis in pilot study
Applying deep brain stimulation to a different region in the brain than has been used for other conditions improved the recovery of lower limb movements in two patients with severe spinal cord injuries,
Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed to walk again
As hoped, zapping neurons in the brains of injured rats over the course of several weeks helped them, too, to regain the ability to walk. The improvements persisted even when the current was turned off, with analysis of their spinal cords showing an increased density of neuronal wiring below the site of their injuries.
Deep brain stimulation helps two patients walk after spinal injury
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.
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.
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).
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