A paralysed patient in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant

A paralysed man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers [Courtesy].

Five years after he was paralysed in a snowmobile accident, a man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers.

A team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota say the man, using a front-wheeled walker, was able to cover the equivalent of the length of a football pitch, issuing commands from his brain to transfer weight and maintain balance -- all previously thought impossible for paralysed patients.