‘Life-changing’ discovery for people with spinal cord injury

Blood pressure can be controlled without drugs after spinal cord injury, new research has revealed.

Spinal cord stimulators can bridge the body’s autonomous regulation system, controlling blood pressure without medication, the study found.

Led by Dr Aaron Phillips at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) and Grégoire Courtine, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the study has been hailed as having “life-changing” consequences for people with spinal cord injury.