A paralysed Brighton man has become one of the only people in the world to learn to walk again.
Graham Miles was diagnosed with "locked-in syndrome" after suffering a stroke in 1993.
He was fully conscious but could not move any part of his body apart from blinking his eyes.
Most people never recover and die within the first few months but mr Miles made a remarkable recovery when Daniel Cleal, a movement specialist, took him on 'as a project'.
Mr Miles told the BBC "Initially, even thinking was exhausting in the first few days."
"Some months afterwards when I could talk with a few words I asked a nurse why they wouldn't attend to me.
"She said: 'We were told not to because you were dying'."
Mr Miles can now walk with the aid of a stick and drive a manual car.
Mr Cleal describes him as 'remarkable'.
Locked in syndrome is typically caused by a lesion in the pons, effectively the part of the brain stem that acts as a bridge between brain and body. The most common cause is a stroke.
Public awareness of locked-in syndrome is largely a result of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a book by French magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, later turned into a film.
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