(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 27 – Neurostimulation has made a paraplegic patient walk in a world first achieved by Italian researchers.
Thanks to spinal neurostimulation, for the first time in the world, a 33-year-old patient with a serious lesion of the conus medullaris has started walking again.
The clinical case, published today in Med-Cell Press, involved doctors, physiotherapists and researchers from the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR) together with bioengineers from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa.
“In addition to motor recovery, the stimulation determined a significant improvement in neuropathic pain and in the patient’s overall quality of life,” explains Luigi Albano, neurosurgeon and researcher at the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and first author of the study. (ANSA).
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Thanks to spinal neurostimulation, for the first time in the world, a 33-year-old patient with a serious lesion of the conus medullaris has started walking again.
The clinical case, published today in Med-Cell Press, involved doctors, physiotherapists and researchers from the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR) together with bioengineers from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa.
“In addition to motor recovery, the stimulation determined a significant improvement in neuropathic pain and in the patient’s overall quality of life,” explains Luigi Albano, neurosurgeon and researcher at the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and first author of the study. (ANSA).
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