A therapy combining salmon fibrin injections into the spinal cord and injections of a gene inhibitor into the brain restored voluntary motor function impaired by spinal cord injury, scientis... Read more
For the first time ever, a paralyzed man can move his fingers and hand with his own thoughts thanks to an innovative partnership between The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and B... Read more
Groundbreaking results bring new hope for those with spinal cord injury Four people with paraplegia are able to voluntarily move previously paralyzed muscles as a result of a novel therapy t... Read more
Lightweight suit to increase the wearer’s strength and endurance For decades engineers have built exoskeletons that use rigid links in parallel with the biological anatomy to increase... Read more
Every year thousands of people in Europe are paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a wheelchair. Although no medical cure curre... Read more
People with spinal cord injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part of their body, not extension of immobile limbs. The human brain can learn to treat relevant prosthetics as a s... Read more
It also enabled him to move a robot arm to touch a friend’s hand for the first time in the seven years Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLo... Read more
The dream of regaining the ability to stand up and walk has come closer to reality for people paralyzed below the waist who thought they would never take another step. A team of engineers at... Read more
Provides assistance by storing and releasing kinetic energy generated by a person when walking Like Honda’s Stride Walking Assist and the ReWalk, the Kickstart from Cadence Biomedical is des... Read more
Preliminary Research Findings for Ekso in Spinal Cord Injury – Promising Preliminary research findings have been released from a clinical study of the wearable robotic exoskeletal devi... Read more
Device offers new hope to local wheelchair users Twenty-two-year-old Mary Beth Davis of Guthrie was injured in a car accident on her way home from school in Stillwater in 2010. She was left... Read more
Georgia Tech researchers have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills for people with paralyzing spinal cord injury (SCI). The gadget was successfully u... Read more
The nanofibers and gels might someday allow doctors to simply “fix” damage that is currently impossible to treat Medicine’s recipe for keeping older people active and funct... Read more
Promises its users a welcome new level of autonomy For those unfortunate enough to suffer from severe spinal cord injuries, the tongue is often the only extremity still under their co... Read more
Hard part: finding the money to push the research further Researchers at the California Institute of Technology believe they’ve made a breakthrough that could help people with multipl... Read more
