The lead author, Susan Harkema, is a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the university.

首席作者Susan Harkema是这所大学神经外科学院的教授。

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Professor Harkema says there could be a day when Rob Summers and other paraplegics like him will be able to walk again.

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Professor Harkema is director of the Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network.

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With practice, Dr Harkema reckons, it is conceivable that patients could eventually regain voluntary control over their lower limbs.

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Dr Harkema and her team achieved this by suspending patients over the treadmill in a contraption resembling a parachute harness.

ECONOMIST: Neurology

Now, Dr Harkema and her colleagues have shown that all that is needed to make the trick work in people is a little more fine-tuning.

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