A patient with advanced Parkinson’s recovered with a spinal implant

Swiss researchers used an implant for the mobility of a patient with advanced Parkinson’s disease and by implanting it in the spine, they were able to improve the mobility of this patient.

According to Tekna’s technology and technology news service, an experimental implant has been able to make a man with advanced Parkinson’s move by sending electrical stimulation to the spinal cord. The implant was developed by researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. With its help, it was possible for the patient to walk smoothly and without falling.

The therapeutic effects of this implant on the spine of this patient were experimentally investigated for two years. Jocelyn Bloch, a neurosurgeon and one of the main authors of this article, says: Currently, there is no suitable treatment for walking problems, which is considered one of the severe effects of Parkinson’s. Therefore, it is rare to see such patients who can walk.

Considering that the implant in question has been tested on only one patient, it is not yet possible to determine whether this approach is applicable to other people as well. In this method, a neural prosthetic device is used to stimulate the spinal cord so that inefficient neural circuits can be activated and electricity pulses will be sent to certain areas of the spinal cord.