A man paralyzed for over two years has now gained the ability to walk again owing to a breakthrough Swiss treatment that reactivated his muscles by inserting a spinal cord implant and attaching electrodes to individual nerve fibers. Michael Roccati was involved in a motorcycle accident in 2017, which left his lower half completely paralyzed. Roccati subsequently enrolled in a research program with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) that developed implants to send electrical impulses to his muscles mimicking the brain’s action. “It was a very emotional experience,” Roccati told journalists about the feeling of taking his first step using the system. The epidural electrical stimulation (EES) at EPFL focuses on the dorsal roots of the lumbosacral segments in the spine and restores the ability to walk in people who have suffered spinal cord injury (SCI). Roccati was one of the three patients who was part …