A new FDA-approved device helps people in Austin with spinal cord injuries improve hand strength, movement and daily ...

Robert & Brenda Aiken Professor of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU, Biomedical Engineer, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Center for Functional Electrical Stimulation ...

For people experiencing paralysis, communication often means spelling out words one letter at a time by using their eyes to select letters on a keyboard, according to Daniel Rubin, a critical care ...

People with quadriplegia—paralysis of all four limbs caused by spinal cord injury—may have new hope for restoring a sense of touch in new research conducted at Case Western Reserve University. A $3.1 ...

Traditional stroke rehabilitation therapy focuses on restoring strength and movement to the more impaired side of the body, but a new randomized clinical trial has revealed that targeted therapy for ...

A new study documents a man with paralysis who moves and feels objects through the use of another person’s hand via brain implant. The work ran in New York with a fully implanted system that ...

Once there was an old man called Jonah Crabb, who believed in doing good. Every morning the bunco artists would watch for him on the street corners, and after they had told their hard-luck stories, he ...

Meta researchers are creating a wristband that enables users to control computers through hand gestures. This includes actions like moving a cursor, opening apps, and sending messages by writing in ...

Meta researchers are developing a wristband that will allow users to control their computer with a wave of their hand. The device uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to detect electrical signals from ...

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...