Some good news,for a change.

Current affairs, Politics, News.
User avatar
Skub
Posts: 12167
Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:32 pm
Location: Norn Iron
Has thanked: 9828 times
Been thanked: 10145 times

Some good news,for a change.

Post by Skub »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60258620 Science is awesome.

A paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers.

It is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to their spinal cord has been able to walk freely.

The same technology has improved the health of another paralysed patient to the extent that he has been able to become a father.

The research has been published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Michel Roccati was paralysed after a motorbike accident five years ago. His spinal cord was completely severed - and he has no feeling at all in his legs.

But he can now walk - because of an electrical implant that has been surgically attached to his spine.

Someone this injured has never been able to walk like this before.
"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
Walt Whitman
https://soundcloud.com/skub1955
Supermofo
Posts: 5001
Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 3:39 pm
Has thanked: 4360 times
Been thanked: 2851 times

Re: Some good news,for a change.

Post by Supermofo »

You read all the politics, covid, economy stuff and it's really disheartening. Then you read this and remember how bloody amazing humans can be at times.