“In February, a trainer who had been scooting along the floor at Thomas’s feet, helping her move her legs and place her feet as she used a walker, stopped and stood up. ‘What are you doing?’ Thomas asked, alarmed. ‘You’re doing it,’ the trainer, Rebekah Morton, told her. ‘You don’t need me.’ Thomas hesitated, and then took a step on her own. Then another.” Amazing story from WaPo: Paralyzed people are beginning to walk with a new kind of therapy. “Thomas, now 23, is one of several people with spinal cord injuries who are standing, taking steps and — in her case — walking without assistance, thanks to an experimental combination therapy. In a research study at the University of Louisville, Thomas and three others had a device surgically implanted on their spinal cords to stimulate electrical activity, accompanied by months of daily physical therapy.”