An experimental drug could help improve movement for patients with spinal cord injuries, and it's already making a big difference for one patient in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

Larry Williams is walking, something he thought wouldn't be possible after breaking his neck in a cycling accident three years ago.

"Panic, despair, depression, anxiety — I couldn't do anything," Williams said. "I had no strength to even roll over in bed."

He wasn't sure how much he would recover.

Wanting his life back, Williams decided to join a clinical trial in Chicago over the summer to test an experimental drug. He received one injection every day for three months.

The experimental drug made by NervGen Pharma is an injectable peptide that's supposed to help repair nerve connections disrupted by a spinal cord

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