<p>By Scott Kirsner <br /> Globe Correspondent / September 26, 2010 </p> <p> While most people who suffer a traumatic spinal cord injury never recover their normal functioning, Reynolds has written that his company’s medical device will “restore 80 percent of the patient’s normal functioning.’’ In the company’s early experiments with paralyzed primates, Reynolds has said, “100 percent of our monkeys have gotten up and walked in just about three weeks.’’</p> <p>He told a Boston audience recently that he hopes to begin a small human trial of the device, which is implanted in the spinal ..</p>