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2500 BC: The first trace The first written mention of paraplegia can be found in the Edwin Smith papyrus. It is the world's oldest medical record and describes the prevailing attitude over a long time: “An untreatable condition.”

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The Greek physician Hippocrates, regarded as the “father of medicine”, leaves behind the first medical description of chronic paraplegia and develops a stretching bench for therapy. Several centuries later, the Greek doctors Aretaeus and Galen define the different levels of paraplegia.

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