Man’s brain and legs reconnected to help him walk again

A man confined to a wheelchair five years ago is able to walk again after scientists reconnected his brain and legs.

It is the first time a paraplegic patient completely paralysed from the waist down after a spinal cord injury has been able to walk without relying on manually operated robotic limbs.

Neurosurgeons made the modern miracle possible by transmitting signals from the 26-year-old American’s brain to electrodes placed around both knees.