Here's how a nerve-stimulation device has brought movement back to patients who are paralyzed
Patients were able to take their first steps within an hour of neurosurgeons first implanting prototypes of a nerve-stimulation device. Image: UNSPLASH/Chris Hardy
Nancy Lapid
Editor-in-Charge, Reuters Health
Ari Rabinovitch
Writer, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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