Patients with paralysis can move with 'remote control'

Scientists have initially succeeded in using wireless technology to control the brains of the paralyzed patients, enabling them to walk back to normal.

Scientists have just achieved a major breakthrough in finding ways to make paralyzed patients able to walk back to normal thanks to a wireless brain activity console.

Patients with paralysis are fully capable of walking back and forth through the console connecting the brain and spine.

According to Reuters, Swiss scientists have succeeded in making the spinal-damaged primates regain control of their limbs thanks to advances in wireless technology. The team revealed that they used a neural control interface as a wireless bridge between the spine and brain of monkeys, thereby overcoming the limitations of movement due to damage to their spinal cord.

Scientists have begun studying the feasibility of this progress on small parts of the human body.

Jocelyne Bloch, neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of Lausanne, an important member of the research team said: "The relationship between brain decoding and spinal stimulation - to make pine communication exists - is a new issue, for the first time we dream of the prospect of a paralyzed patient being completely able to walk back and forth through the console that connects the brain and spine " .

Despite a promising start, scientists say it will take several years for this technology to be applied to humans.

Wireless signals can help damage the bone marrow to walk again.

The research has just been published in Nature on Wednesday. Scientists say the console works by decoding brain activity when walking and then relaying signals to the spinal cord (this signal does not damage the parts). of body). This can be done with the use of electrodes to stimulate the nerves thereby activating the muscles in both legs.