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Quadriplegic regains use of arm in medical first

American man paralysed from shoulders down can feed himself again using prosthesis: study

Paris

A DECADE after a bike crash that left an American man paralysed from the shoulders down, he can again feed himself, researchers hailing a medical first reported on Wednesday.

The remarkable advance hinges on a prosthesis which circumvents rather than repairs his spinal injury, using wires, electrodes as well as computer software to reconnect the severed link between his brain and muscles.

"To our knowledge, this is the first instance in the world of a person with severe and chronic paralysis directly...

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