Paralyzed

Gert-Jan Oskam was living in China in 2011 when he was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the hips down. Now, with a combination of devices, scientists have given him…

“This is very exciting,” says Jason Carmel, a motor system neuroscientist at Columbia University who wasn’t involved in the study. “It opens up a potential treatment avenue that we’ve never…

Qatar 2022 seemed like the perfect moment for Brazil, but it all came crashing down as they lost to Croatia in their quarter-finals. With the score tied at 1-1 in regulation time with the…

Mike McGinnis/Getty ImagesThe Milwaukee Brewers plan to honor an 8-year-old boy who was paralyzed from the waist down in the July 4 Highland Park, Illinois, shooting during Friday's game…

One day Recently, I arrived at the Manhattan office where I work as a tutor. I hoped to tame my inbox before my first session. Instead, I clicked a news alert and succumbed to a media storm…

Two square electrode arrays were surgically implanted in the unnamed man's brain, in the area that controls movement. Once installed, researchers began testing for the most…

In 2020 Ujwal Chaudhary, a biomedical engineer then at the University of Tübingen and the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, watched his computer with amazement as an…

Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty ImagesFormer NBA big man Shawn Bradley opened up about his life following a January 2021 bicycle crash that left him paralyzed from the chest down during an…

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses "dancing molecules" to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries. In a…

In his early twenties, Lee Nam-hyun was an avid swimmer. But in 2004 he broke his neck in a pool, which left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Recovery from his injuries required years…