The lower body still loves

A small electrical device implanted in the waist helped a man to regenerate his dead lower body so he could have sex again.

The mad scientist Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel uses electricity from lightning to "reboot" a person made of dead body parts. Listening to the story seems unimaginable, but recently, American scientists have created miracles when using electric current to revive the human body that has been permanently paralyzed.

Electrical devices that have revived the lower half of the body include the legs, bladder, intestines, genital organs . which are paralyzed by a man - (photo provided by the research team).

The man participated in the 32-year-old test this year, having experienced a traffic accident leading to spinal cord paralysis . Through 80 rounds of physical therapy, his lower body still did not have a recovery signal. This means he will also have to live his life like many other myelosuppressants: inability to walk, have to pass through the skin because he cannot control the bladder, cannot have sex and never feel it Anything in the lower body.

The research team at the University of Louisville (Kentucky - USA) implanted in his lower back a small generator. This device will generate electrical impulses instead of electroencephalography, which has been disconnected, cannot go down to the lower body due to marrow damage.

This stimulus is connected to a central model machine (CPG), which functions as a mini brain implanted in the spinal cord, helping his body move according to the commands being issued. Thus, for the first time, the man took the first step in the physiotherapy room. Some electrodes are also added externally to support and control the process.

After 44 months of training thanks to electric current, the man was able to walk by himself - (photo provided by the research team).

After 44 months of practice, the miracle was noted. Not only does it provide an alternative power source for the lower body to work, it also helps to awaken dead nerve cells in the spinal cord and stimulate the formation of new neurons in the brain.

His lower body was really revived. Now, when the device is not turned on, this man can still walk. Not only the feet, the use of electricity to revive nerve cells also helps improve bladder control, bowel, and reproductive organs. He can urinate and have sex by himself - something that all people with paralysis dream of.

The study has just been published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports.