nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
polish c. 1974 first person to fully recover from paraplegia darek fidyka
 darek fidyka volunteer firefighter
darek fidyka

darek fidyka -lrb- born c. 1974 -rrb- is a polish firefighter and former paraplegic who became the first person in history to recover sensory and motor function after the complete severing of his spinal cord .
having been paralysed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010 , fidyka regained the ability to walk in 2014 after receiving a pioneering regenerative treatment from a british-advised polish surgical team .
