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The VA Is Testing an Implant That Could Allow Paralyzed Veterans to Walk Again
Paralyzed Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Burch uses an exoskeleton to attend his promotion to corporal at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Joshua Burch)
25 Apr 2021
Five years ago, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Burch became the first paralyzed service member to walk to his own promotion ceremony, wearing an exoskeleton that helped him walk and stand to receive his corporal chevrons.
Now medically retired, Burch, 26, hopes again to be a trailblazer the first Department of Veterans Affairs patient to regain function in his lower body to include taking steps courtesy of an electrical implant in his spine that is designed to stimulate his body s sensorimotor networks. ....

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