Gert-Jan from the Netherlands, (who did not wish to give his surname), 40, victim of a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, walks with his implants …

Gert-Jan from the Netherlands, (who did not wish to give his surname), 40, victim of a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, walks with his implants during a press conference in Lausanne on May 23, 2023. For the first time after more than a decade of work by researchers in France and Switzerland, a paralysed man has regained the ability to walk naturally using only his thoughts thanks to two implants that restored communication between his brain and spinal cord. The advance was revealed in a study in the journal Nature. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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How a medical device helped one man with paralysis walk again

by: Brian Althimer

Posted: May 25, 2023 / 06:56 PM CDT

Updated: Jun 1, 2023 / 03:53 PM CDT

Gert-Jan from the Netherlands, (who did not wish to give his surname), 40, victim of a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, walks with his implants …

Gert-Jan from the Netherlands, (who did not wish to give his surname), 40, victim of a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, walks with his implants during a press conference in Lausanne on May 23, 2023. For the first time after more than a decade of work by researchers in France and Switzerland, a paralysed man has regained the ability to walk naturally using only his thoughts thanks to two implants that restored communication between his brain and spinal cord. The advance was revealed in a study in the journal Nature. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

by: Brian Althimer

Posted: May 25, 2023 / 06:56 PM CDT

Updated: Jun 1, 2023 / 03:53 PM CDT

Dr. Joshua Rosenow, the director of functional neurosurgery at Northwestern Medicine, joins Lisa Dent to explain the technology and research that helped a man with paralysis from the Netherlands walk again for the first time in 12 years.

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