Quadriplegic regains use of arm in medical first

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.