Mr Ghaffar is now able to stand and walk several hundred steps with the aid of a robotic suit after doctors implanted a spinal cord stimulator. Mr Ghaffar was injured outside Letterkenny ...

the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows because of arthritis, bone spurs, or other problems.

An unparalleled opportunity for the study of long-surviving patients with traumatic lesions of the spinal cord has been afforded by World War II, and knowledge of the reflex functions of the cord ...