Experimental Implant Shows Early Promise by Enabling Quadriplegics to Regain Hand Strength, Voluntar (VIDEO)

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Doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center have implanted a spinal stimulator that is showing early promise in returning hand strength and movement to a California man who broke his neck in a dirt-biking accident five years ago.

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