Tag Archives: Dr. Gregoire Courtine

From wheelchair to walking after spinal cord injury

Posted on June 25, 2019 by christalpowell

Several paraplegics can now walk again – thanks to precise electrical stimulation of their spinal cords via a wireless implant and intensive neurorehabilitation. Speaking at Science Unlimited 2019, Grégoire Courtine illustrated this incredible spinal implant technology, as well as the … Continue reading →

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Efforts underway to bring treatments to Australia

Posted on April 16, 2019 by christalpowell

In this special 60 Minutes Report, Charles Wooley travels to Switzerland to watch something incredible – a paralyzed man walking. They’re faltering steps, but they signal a giant leap forward for science. And it is all part of a global … Continue reading →

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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has implanted SCI trial patient walking 1/2 mile.

Posted on October 31, 2018 by christalpowell

Spinal implant helps three paralysed men walk again By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News “Three paralysed men, who were told they would spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair, are able to walk again thanks to doctors … Continue reading →

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More concept developments reported from the Courtine lab in Nature

Posted on August 6, 2018 by christalpowell

For those following SCI research in the electrical stimulation field, this open access article in Nature Communications is worth a read.  Here, the Gregoire Courtine lab describes the concept and project where brain-controlled modulation coupled with constant stimulation during gait … Continue reading →

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Advantages of soft subdural implants for the delivery of electrochemical neuromodulation therapies to the spinal cord.

Posted on May 10, 2018 by christalpowell

Journal of Neural Engineering Abstract: OBJECTIVE: We recently developed soft neural interfaces enabling the delivery of electrical and chemical stimulation to the spinal cord. These stimulations restored locomotion in animal models of paralysis. Soft interfaces can be placed either below … Continue reading →

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Paraplegic rats walk again after therapy, now we know why

Posted on March 20, 2018 by christalpowell

With the help of robot-assisted rehabilitation and electrochemical spinal cord stimulation, rats with clinically-relevant spinal cord injury regain control of their otherwise paralyzed limbs. But how do brain commands – about walking, swimming and stair-climbing – bypass the injury and … Continue reading →

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Monkeys Regain Control Of Paralyzed Legs With Help Of An Implant

Posted on November 9, 2016 by christalpowell

A few months ago, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch emerged from a 10-hour surgery that she hadn’t done before. “Most of my patients are humans,” says Bloch, who works at the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland. This patient was a rhesus macaque. … Continue reading →

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Innovation Corner Startup Pitch: Vincent Delattre of G-Therapeutics

Posted on January 16, 2016 by christalpowell

Vincent Delattre, Co-Founder, G-Therapeutics, Switzerland G-Therapeutics is developing an implantable stimulation system and a robot-assisted training program to rehabilitate individuals with spinal cord injury. By enabling nervous system rewiring, the therapy is expected to help paralysed people walk again. The … Continue reading →

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Neuroprosthetic Technologies to Improve Motor Recovery after SCI: Gregoire Courtine, PhD

Posted on November 25, 2015 by christalpowell

Over the past decade, Dr. Courtine’s team developed a pragmatic therapy that restored supraspinal control over refined leg movements after severe spinal cord injury in rodents. The therapy acts over two time windows. Immediately, electrical and chemical neuromodulation of spinal … Continue reading →

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