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Keith Thomas, a 42-year-old from Massapequa, New York, suffered a devastating neck injury while diving into a swimming pool in July 2020.
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The accident left him paralysed from the chest down, unable to move his limbs."The next day I couldn't even move," Thomas recalled of waking in hospital after being airlifted from the scene.Six years on, a revolutionary brain implant has transformed his daily life.
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The technology, which bypasses his damaged spinal cord, now enables him to feed himself and lift a cup to drink independently.When Thomas enrolled in the clinical trial in October 2021, he could not even raise his arms from his wheelchair.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The system, dubbed a "double neural bypass" by scientists at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, works by detecting Thomas's intention to move through electrodes surgically placed in his brain.These signals are then rerouted directly to his arms and hands, circumventing the severed connection caused by his...
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