Mayo Clinic
Three people paralysed from the waist down have become the first to walk again using a new type of therapy. Doctors treated them with a mixture of electrical stimulation from spinal implants, plus gruelling months-long exercise regimes.
Two were treated at the University of Louisville’s Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center. Kelly Thomas, a 23-year-old from Florida injured in 2014 through a car accident, and Jeff Marquis, a 35-year-old from Wisconsin, broke his back in 2011 through a mountain-biking accident. The third patient, 29-year-old Jered Chinnock, was injured in a snowmobile accident in 2013, and …