A man paralyzed for over two years has now gained the ability to walk again owing to a breakthrough Swiss treatment that reactivated his muscles by inserting a spinal cord implant and attaching electrodes to individual nerve fibers.
Michael Roccati was involved in a motorcycle accident in 2017, which left his lower half completely paralyzed. Roccati subsequently enrolled in a research program with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) that developed implants to send electrical impulses to his muscles mimicking the brain’s action.
