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Marc Gauthier has Parkinson’s disease. 

马克·高蒂尔患有帕金森病。 

The disease affects his nervous system, weakens his muscles and causes his arms and legs to shake. 

这种疾病影响了他的神经系统，削弱了他的肌肉，导致他的胳膊和腿颤抖。 

The 63-year-old Gauthier had not been able to leave his home for some time. But that was until he became the first person to receive a new Swiss-designed medical device that greatly improved his ability to walk. 

63岁的高蒂尔已经有一段时间无法离开家了。但直到他成为第一个接受瑞士设计的新型医疗设备的人，该设备极大地提高了他的行走能力。 

Gauthier received a medical device called a neuroprosthetic at Switzerland’s Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Part of the device, called an electrode field, is placed against part of the nervous system which runs in the back called the spinal cord. Another part of the device, found under his skin below the stomach, uses electricity to stimulate the spinal cord to start up his leg muscles. It is called an electrical impulse generator. 

高蒂尔在瑞士洛桑大学医院 (CHUV) 接受了一种名为神经假体的医疗设备。该设备的一部分（称为电极场）放置在位于背部的神经系统（称为脊髓）的一部分上。该装置的另一部分位于他胃下方的皮肤下，利用电力刺激脊髓来启动他的腿部肌肉。它被称为电脉冲发生器。 

"It changed my life because I'm now independent," said Gauthier, a native of the French city of Bordeaux, as he sat with his doctors at CHUV. "I can leave my home, run errands. I even go on foot." “这改变了我的生活，因为我现在独立了，

”来自法国波尔多市的高蒂尔在 CHUV 医院与医生坐在一起说道。“我可以离开家，跑腿。我什至步行去。”

The number of people affected by Parkinson’s disease has doubled over the past 25 years, the World Health Organization found. Worldwide estimates showed that more than 8.5 million people suffered from the disease in 2019. Grégoire Courtine is one of the doctors leading the project. He said the electrical pulses delivered to Gauthier’s spinal cord has permitted him to walk the way he would have without the disease. 

世界卫生组织发现，过去 25 年来，帕