Epidural stimulation introduced in India

  • | Thursday | 17th January, 2019

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.

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. 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. 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. Though the therapy is new but has been proved reliable enough to be used as a first concrete step towards the cure of spinal cord injury," said Dr Sachin Kandhari, senior neurosurgeon and medical director, Institute of Brain and Spine Hospital. The neurosurgeons at the IBS in the National Capital, who implanted the device to relieve the patient of the debilitating neuropathic pain hope that this unexpected bonus will enable many paralysed people to regain independent movement. "I came with no hope as nothing had worked so far, but just after one meeting with Dr Sachin and his team, the desperation turned into hope for the first time in years". To me, it means a lot. I'm surprised at what we have been able to do. I think you've got to try the impossible to make the possible. It feels really good," says Amil. IN DEPTH

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