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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Though a treatment using the three-pronged approach is at least several years away, the study suggests the potential of using neuroprosthetic devices to activate spinal cord rhythmic circuitry, said study author Gregoire Courtine, a professor in the department of neurology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His team is currently developing a device that they hope to begin testing in small clinical trials in three to four years.
About 5.6 million Americans, or one in 50, has some level of paralysis, according to a survey released in April of 33,000 U.S. households by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. About one-quarter of the nearly 2 percent of the U.S. population living with paralysis is due to a spinal cord injury.
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The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation has more on the latest spinal cord injury research.
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Last updated 9/21/2009
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SOURCES: Susan Howley, executive vice president, research, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, Short Hills, N.J.; V. Reggie Edgerton, Ph.D., professor, physiological sciences and neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles; Gregoire Courtine, professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Sept. 20, 2009, Nature Neuroscience, online
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