A motorcycle crash left Michel Roccati with complete lower-body paralysis from a devastating spinal cord injury.
That was in 2017.
But now, the Italian native is walking again, courtesy of groundbreaking Swiss research that restores motor function within one day by means of carefully targeted electrical stimulation.
“At the beginning, I was unable to move the muscles of the legs, and I feel nothing,” Roccati recalled recently.
Now he can stand, walk and do stairs. In fact, “everything I have in mind to train I can do with the stimulation,” Roccati said at a press briefing hosted by Nature Medicine, which recently published the findings.
According to the World Health Organization, every year from 250,000 to a half-million people around the world suffer a seriously disabl...
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