Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps A 39-year-old man who had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily... Read more
After training, men move legs independently, without stimulation Five men with complete motor paralysis were able to voluntarily generate step-like movements thanks to a new strategy that no... Read more
A new way to artificially control muscles using light, with the potential to restore function to muscles paralysed by conditions such as motor neuron disease and spinal cord injury, has been... 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
A trial of thought-controlled robotic legs is taking its first steps ANYONE who saw Claire Lomas complete this year’s London marathon on May 7th cannot fail to have been impressed by... Read more
They were able to predict the words the person had heard Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, accor... Read more
In a move that gives cautious hope to the millions of people suffering some form of paralysis, a team of researchers from UCLA, Caltech and the University of Louisville has given a man rende... Read more