Device Helps Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
From: Technology Review - 12/03/2010
By: Lauren Gravitz

Electronic "bridge" could one day assist paralysis patients.

Until recently, severe spinal cord injuries came with a fairly definite
diagnosis of paralysis, whether partial or complete. But new developments in
both stem-cell therapy and electronic stimulation have begun to provide hope,
however distant, that paralysis may not be a life sentence. Complicated
muscle stimulation devices can enable limited standing and walking, and the
first embryonic stem-cell trials began last year. Other techniques, however,
may provide an even simpler solution. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26824/?ref=rss

Link:
V. Reggie Edgerton
http://www.physci.ucla.edu/research/edgerton/index.php