2022-02-08 00:09:39
Paralyzed since 2017, the boy can now walk, climb stairs and swim thanks to a device
Michel Roccati is 30 years old and lives in Turin. Paralyzed after a motorcycle accident in 2017, he can walk today, climb stairs and swim thanks to electrodes implanted on the spinal cord. For now, the patient’s voluntary command passes through a tablet that acts as a “brain” and stimulates movement, but the goal is to arrive at a wireless “by-pass” capable of collecting electrical impulses in the brain and sending them to a chip implanted in the brain. marrow, “bypassing” the spinal injury as it already was experimented in 2016 on two macaques. Another important step will be to test the system on a greater number of patients on a device, controlled with a tablet, designed in Lausanne.
Feb 7, 2022 – Updated Feb 8, 2022, 12:28pm
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