Medicine, 4 People with Full Bone Marrow Injury Return to Walk
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The laboratory of modular neuroprosthesis implantable born from the collaboration between San Raffaele of Milan and Sant'Anna of Pisa, uses commercial stimulators. No implants in the brain, no external sensor, the advantage of being available immediately. He explains it to HuffPost Silvestro Micera, professor of Bioengineering among the heads of research
After months of intensive rehabilitation, four young people paralyzed for a complete and chronic spinal cord injury returned to walk. They no longer had any control over the muscles of the legs,...
With small torso movements they activated a neurostimulator (ANSA)
Milan, 7 sets. (Adnkronos Salute) - Four people with chronic and functionally complete chest bone marrow injury, without the ability to voluntarily contract the muscles of the lower limbs, have managed to maintain the upright position and return to walking with a walker thanks to a new mode of control of the electric epidural stimulation of the spinal cord. It is a strategy that exploits a very simple gesture: a slight voluntary extension of the…
Until a few years ago, such news could have seemed like science fiction. Or, to be more precise, fantasy medicine: a person with a chronic chest bone marrow injury, without any ability to voluntarily contract the muscles of the legs, who comes back to stand and walk. Not because the spinal cord spontaneously recovered the [...] L'articolo The standing movements and steps of four patients with bone marrow injury: so the trunk has become a remote …
A technology developed by Italian researchers has allowed four young people with severe spinal cord injuries to get up from the wheelchair and go again with a framework. The method uses electric stimulation of the spinal cord, controlled by very small voluntary movements of the trunk. The results are spectacular, but scientists emphasize [...]
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