A clinic that hopes to make paralysed people walk again could accept its first patients next year.
Geoffrey Raisman, professor of neural regeneration at University College London, made international headlines last year when he was part of a team that restored movement to Darek Fidyka, a Polish man whose spine had been severed. Now he says that he is setting up a clinic at St George’s Hospital, also in the capital, that could eventually treat most types of spinal injury.
The first two patients will be similar to Mr Fidyka, who had a very specific type of injury caused by a knife wound, but after that Professor Raisman and his team are looking to extend the treatment to the messier types of “crush injury” suffered