TECHNOLOGY IN THE COURSE OF HEALING A PARALYSED MAN

Estimatedly two years ago, a chip was implanted in the brain of a man by name Ian Burkhart. 

"The chip transmits the man's thoughts directly to his hand muscles" -Doctors report in 'Nature'

Quite unfortunately, this technological escape can only function when he's connected to a laboratory computer. He has been labeled the first man with a 'reanimated limb'.

The man decided to volunteer in the development of reanimated technology at Ohio State University which happened to be only 25 minutes drive away from his home in Dublin, Ohio.

"It gives us a lot of hope that there are perhaps not as many neural changes in the brain as we might have imagined after an injury like this," said Chad Bouton, lead researcher at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, who has studied Burkhart for the past two years.