A man with advanced Parkinson’s disease has been helped to walk again with a special implant that stimulates nerves in his spine.
Marc Gauthier, 63, from Bordeaux, France, the first person to try out the device, says it has given him a second chance in life.
He can now walk for miles, when previously he was often housebound and had several falls a day.
The medical team treating him describe the advance in Nature Medicine journal.
