The ARC-EX gadget delivers an electrical current to the spinal cord via surface electrodes, improving strength, feeling, and mobility in paraplegics.
Volunteers who participated in the first clinical research of its sort said the results were stunning.
Melanie Reid, a columnist for The Times who was paralyzed after falling off a horse 14 years ago, tried the gadget for many months.
“Everyone assumes with spinal damage that all you want to do is be able to walk again, but if you are tetraplegic or quadriplegic [when all four limbs are paralyzed],