{"id":4364,"date":"2015-09-23T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2015-10-02T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:25:59","slug":"teaching-a-paraplegic-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/teaching-a-paraplegic-to-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching a paraplegic to walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4366\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4366\" class=\"wp-image-4366 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"256\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg 256w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using a cap that takes his brain waves and sends them, via bluetooth, to electrodes around his knee, a paralyzed man was able to walk. (Image via BioMed Central).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time a person with complete paralysis in both legs (paraplegia), arising from a spinal cord injury, was able to walk without relying on manually controlled robotic limbs. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results show that brain-controlled walking can be restored after a complete spinal cord injury. After undergoing mental training, and physical rehabilitation to restore the leg muscles, the patient was able to walk along a 3.66 m course, using only a body-weight support system to prevent falls and aid his weakened leg muscles. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The patient had been paralyzed for five years, yet after learning how to control an avatar in virtual reality, he was able to walk using the noninvasive system; a cap connecting the electrical signals from the patient\u2019s brain to electrodes places around the knees. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jneuroengrehab.com\/content\/12\/1\/80\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation<\/em> on <strong>September 23<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An H. Do, Department of Neurology, University of California, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time a person with complete paralysis in both legs (paraplegia), arising from a spinal cord injury, was able to walk without relying on manually controlled robotic limbs. The results show that brain-controlled walking can be restored after a complete spinal cord injury. After undergoing mental training, and physical rehabilitation to restore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,200],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-neurology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}