Spinal Stimulation Gets Paralyzed Patients Moving

This article talks about a guy who had a car accident and was unable to move at the beginning. Then he recuperated the movement of his arms but was bounded to a wheelchair because he was paralyzed from the chest down. They used electrical stimulation with the hope of restoring the signals in his spinal cord. The impressive thing was that just within the first day he was able to stand up with just a little help. Then he started to gain control of other organs and they remained that way even when they were not stimulating his spinal cord.

I found this article really interesting because not a lot of people have hope when they become paralyzed. Technology just keeps increasing and this shows us how a person's life can be changed completely using biomedical engineering.

 You can get access to this article by using this link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/spinal-stimulation-gets-paralyzed-patients-moving