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The 55-year-old man is also among the first 7 patients in the world to have a spinal cord neurostimulator implanted. Thanks to the device, he can now travel about 300 metres. The operation was performed on 10 July at San Raffaele in Milan
Paolo Baldassini, born and raised in Ceparana, a hamlet in the municipality of Bolano, province of La Spezia, an area considered the “Motor Valley of Italy”, is a two-wheel enthusiast: a cyclist as a teenager and then an (amateur) motorcyclist. In 2020 a car accident forced him into a wheelchair due to a spinal injury. Three years later, watching a news program on television, he learned of the first implantation of a spinal cord neurostimulator in Italy which allowed a 32-year-old woman, paraplegic like him, to walk again. He called the San Raffaele hospital, where a specific program is underway, and was “enlisted”. On 10 July 2023 it was operated on by a team of neurosurgeons led by Professor Pietro Mortini, head of Neurosurgery and full professor at the Vita – Salute San Raffaele University, in collaboration with a group of engineers from the Biorobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna di Pisa directed by Professor Silvestro Micera, an internationally renowned expert. And he thus became the second paraplegic patient in Italy and one of the first seven in the world to start walking again thanks to new technology.
December 16, 2023 – Updated December 16, 2023, 4:09 pm
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