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PARIS: A man paralyzed in a nightclub accident can walk again thanks to a brain-controlled exoskeleton in what scientists say is a breakthrough that gives hope to tetraplegics seeking to recover movement. <\/p>\n
The French patient trained for months, taking advantage of his brain signals to control a computer simulated avatar to perform basic movements before using the robot walking device. <\/p>\n
The doctors who conducted the trial warned that the device is years of being publicly available, but emphasized that it had "the potential to improve the quality of life and autonomy of patients." <\/p>\n
The man involved, identified only as Thibault, a 28-year-old from Lyon, said the technology had given him a new opportunity. <\/p>\n
Four years ago, that life changed forever when he fell 12 meters from a balcony during a night out, cut his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. <\/p>\n
"When you're in my position, when you can't do anything with your body … I wanted to do something with my brain," Thibault said. <\/p>\n
When training in a video game avatar system for months to acquire the skills necessary to operate the exoskeleton, he said he had to "learn again" natural movements from scratch.<\/p>\n
"I can't go home tomorrow in my exoskeleton, but I have reached a point where I can walk. I walk when I want and stop when I want." <\/p>\n
The cervical spinal cord injury leaves about 20 percent of patients paralyzed in all four limbs and is the most serious injury of this type. <\/p>\n
"The brain is still capable of generating commands that would normally move the arms and legs, there is simply nothing to carry them out," said Alim-Louis Benabid, professor emeritus of Grenoble and lead author of the study published Friday in The Lancet Neurology . . <\/p>\n
A team of experts from the Grenoble Alpes Hospital, the biomedical firm Cinatech and the CEA research center began by implanting two recording devices on both sides of Thibault's head, between the brain and the skin. <\/p>\n
These read its sensorimotor cortex, the area that controls motor function. <\/p>\n
Each decoder transmits the brain signals that are then translated by an algorithm to the movements that the patient has thought. It is this system that sends physical commands that the exoskeleton executes. <\/p>\n
Thibault used the avatar and videogame to think about performing basic physical tasks such as walking and approaching to touch objects. <\/p>\n
Using the combined avatar, videogame and exoskeleton, he was able to cover the duration of a soccer field and a half over the course of many sessions. <\/p>\n
Several previous studies have used implants to stimulate the muscles in the patients' own bodies, but Grenoble's study is the first to use brain signals to control a robot exoskeleton. <\/p>\n
Experts involved in the investigation say it could lead to brain-controlled wheelchairs for paralytic patients. <\/p>\n
"It's not about turning man into a machine, but about responding to a medical problem," Benabid said. "We are talking about" repaired man, "not" augmented man. " <\/p>\n
In a comment about the study, Tom Shakespeare of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said that the exoskeleton system was "far from the usable clinical possibility." <\/p>\n
But Thibault said the trial offered a "message of hope to people like me." "This is possible, even with our disability."<\/p>\n
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