News BBC update March 2016 – Darek Fidyka

News BBC update March 2016 – Darek Fidyka

Fergus Walsh, BBC Correspondent gives an update of Darek Fidyka, the first man to receive pioneering treatment to cure paralysis through spinal injury. Research funded by the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation

In 2014, our team in Poland announced they had reversed Darek Fidyka’s paralysis using OEC cells taken from his nose to repair his spinal cord.

Mr Fidyka said: “I can tell that sensation is coming back and I am getting stronger. A year ago I would not have been able to ride a tricycle. Now I can feel each muscle and each press of my food on the pedals.”