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Thought-controlled exoskeleton

EdEarl
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Maybe a mind-walker exoskeleton can be augmented by electrical stimulation of muscles to help people who are paralyzed to walk again.

Mind-Walker

TWO years ago, Antonio Melillo was in a car crash that completely severed his spinal cord. He has not been able to move or feel his legs since. And yet here I am, in a lab at the Santa Lucia Foundation hospital in Rome, Italy, watching him walk.

 

 

Electrical Stimulation of Muscles

In a potential breakthrough for the treatment of spinal-cord injuries, a man paralyzed below the chest has regained some ability to move and stand through the use of electrical stimulation coupled with intense physical rehabilitation—a combination previously shown to work only in animals.

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