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Spinal Stimulation Helps Four Patients with Paraplegia Regain Voluntary Movement

Groundbreaking results bring new hope for those with spinal cord injury – NIH study

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2014.  Four people with paraplegia are able to voluntarily move previously paralyzed muscles as a result of a novel therapy that involves electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The participants, each of whom had been paralyzed for more…

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