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Frank Reynolds Treated His Own Spinal Cord Injury and Walked Again [Video]

Frank Reynolds ‘s story is obviously a posh, multi-year affair that involved years of analysis, but for the notice-span deprived, a summary: He was paralyzed. He researched neuroscience. Created a firm. Tested a new surgical treatment on himself. He walked again.

Boom! And now he’s readying an IPO for his company, InVivo, which he hopes will extend this amazing research to the loads.

A video of his 17-minute TEDx talk from August is here. A fully incredible moment involving a monkey occurs at about 10:50 (Note: There is some blood and animal testing in this video):

Frank Reynolds Treated His Own Spinal Cord Injury and Walked Again [Video] Doctors had told him he’d never walk again. Obviously they were wrong. [ Youtube via Miguel de Icaza's Twitter ]

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