PARIS - Five years after he was paralysed in a snowmobile accident, a man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers. The man, now 29, severed his spinal cord in the middle of his back when he crashed his snowmobile in 2013. He is completely paralysed from the waist down, and cannot move or feel anything below the middle of his torso. - Long road ahead -Eventually the man was able to walk on the treadmill with only periodic glances down at his legs. While the device's effect is remarkable, the man is still paralysed once it is turned off.

Source: Bangkok Post September 24, 2018 15:45 UTC