Deep brain stimulation helps two patients walk after spinal injury
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In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation technique is helping the 54-year-old Jäger walk and move again. Advertisement "Last year on vacation, it was no problem to walk a couple of steps down and back to the sea using the stimulation," Jäger said in a news release from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. "I
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