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February 21, 2013

Walking again after spinal injury
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 21, 2013
In the lab, rats with severe spinal cord injury are learning to walk-and run-again. Last June in the journal Science, Gregoire Courtine, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), reported that rats in his lab are not only voluntarily initiating a walking gait, but they were sprinting, climbing up stairs, and avoiding obstacles after a couple of weeks of neurorehabilitation with a combination of a robotic harness and electricalchemical stimulation. Now, at the 2013 Annual Meeting of t ... read more

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