Research by Ohio University (USA) shows that gabapentin used to treat nerve pain can support rehabilitation of upper limb after spinal cord injury.
Scientists have initially succeeded in using wireless technology to control the brains of the paralyzed patients, enabling them to walk back to normal.
For the first time, a patient who is paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury can walk again, after receiving a nose olfactory nerve cell into the spinal column.
Recently, a group of scientists has successfully tested the recovery of spinal cord injury in mice with spinal cord injury by a project called NEUWalk.
One of the world's leading researchers on spinal cord injury said China could hold the key he sought to cure spinal cord injury.
A group of Japanese scientists have successfully treated spinal cord injuries for a rat using special stem cells taken from human teeth.