Seven months of stem cell therapy has brought sensation back to a man who was left a paraplegic on December 26th, 2004, after his spinal cord was damaged during a road accident.

“Before operation, there was no sensation. Now I am feeling the sensation and am able to get up a bit on my own,” says 28-year-old man.

He is one of a dozen other people at the Global Hospitals in Hyderabad, India, who are undertaking stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury. The program is run under ICMR-approved protocol.

G.P.V. Subbaiah, who is an orthopedic and spinal surgeon, said that the result so far has been beyond his expectations. He was astonished by the display of such