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'Hope' as paralysed patient walks

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An unprecedented treatment has enabled a paralysed patient to walk again.

Rob Summers describes his recovery. And one of the physicians responsible,

Dr Jonathan Hodes, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, explains the treatment.


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