A person who was paralysed in a biking accident in 2011 has been in a position to stand and stroll with an help after docs implanted a tool that reads brainwaves and sends directions to the backbone to activate the correct muscle tissues.
Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was informed he would by no means stroll once more after breaking his neck in a site visitors accident in China, however has climbed stairs and walked for greater than 100 meres at a time since having the operation. The ‘digital bridge’ is the newest from a crew of neuroscientists in Switzerland who’ve a longstanding programme to develop brain-machine interfaces to beat paralysis
