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Being the most advanced treatment available, epidural stimulation has helped spinal cord injury patients regain voluntary movements and body functions, say, doctors. Amil's stimulation and physiotherapy program started nine months ago, and can now walk up to 20-25 paces when his Epidural implant is turned on. "We have performed several stimulation surgeries in the last nine months and this achievement is first of its kind in India. Mohammad Amil, a 24-year-old patient from Bharuch area in Gujarat, who became immobile five years ago after a motorcycle accident and injured his spinal cord at Dorsal spine, is one of the few patients who has benefitted from 'Epidural Stimulation' in India. It has restored faith in various similar recent programs being conducted worldwide to restore motion in partially or completely paralysed patients by applying continuous electrical stimulation to the spinal cord..