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Brain and spine implants allow man with paralysis to walk

In 2011, Gert-Jan Oskam became paralyzed from the waist down after a motorcycling accident. Now the 40-year-old Dutch man is able to walk again, thanks to electronic implants in his brain and spinal cord. Crystal Goomansingh explains the technology, and the hope it could potentially give more people some of the control and mobility they thought they had lost forever.