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31 January 2017

When Your Bladder or Bowels Control Your Life

Everybody has to go. For those of us with neurological conditions like spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, or even complications from a stroke, you can often feel tethered to the

18 January 2017

For Amputees, Reactivating the Sense of Touch

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When Keith Vonderhuevel lost his arm in a factory accident, he never thought that he’d be able to feel his hand again. That may very well change. Keith is currently

06 December 2016

The Neuroscientist Who’s Building a Better Memory for Humans

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In an episode of the dystopian near-future series, Black Mirror, a small, implantable device behind the ear grants the ability to remember, access, and replay every moment of your life in

22 November 2016

A Hand Instead of a Tool: New Prosthetics Offer Increased Touch-Sensitivity

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Touch-sensitive prosthetics are unarguably a life-changing development. For amputees, the prospect of being able to experience not just sensation with their prosthetics, but the level of intensity of the sensation

20 October 2016

CWRU and Halyard Health partnering to advance non-narcotic pain management

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What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Read

14 October 2016

Brain Implant Allows Man to Feel Touch on Robotic Hand

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At the end of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker feels when a needle pricks his newly-installed bionic hand. Researchers report today in the journal Science Translational Medicine that they

30 September 2016

Zubizarreta House for spinal cord patients soon to be reality

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MetroHealth has long been known as one of the best rehab centers for spinal cord injuries. As part of the Cleveland FES Center the researchers, engineers and clinicians are on the cutting edge

12 August 2016

Cleveland Institute of Art: quiet champion of biomedical arts

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Biomedical Art students from CIA are often hired as interns at the Center for medical illustration, communicating complex medical information visually so patients, the public, and other medical professionals can

20 July 2016

I Was Paralyzed By a Spinal Cord Injury – and It’s Made My Life More Fulfilling

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Christopher Wynn broke his neck diving into the ocean. Now, he runs an activity-based recovery program for other injured people. Wynn has benefited from functional electrical stimulation, which provides him

14 July 2016

Implanted neuroprosthesis doubles walking speed in 64-year-old stroke patient

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A stroke patient with limited mobility more than doubled his walking speed, and nearly quadrupled his walking distance, after surgical implantation of a neuroprosthesis that electrically stimulates coordinated muscle movement, according

People

When Your Bladder or Bowels Control Your Life

For Amputees, Reactivating the Sense of Touch

The Neuroscientist Who’s Building a Better Memory for Humans

A Hand Instead of a Tool: New Prosthetics Offer Increased Touch-Sensitivity

CWRU and Halyard Health partnering to advance non-narcotic pain management

Brain Implant Allows Man to Feel Touch on Robotic Hand

Zubizarreta House for spinal cord patients soon to be reality

Cleveland Institute of Art: quiet champion of biomedical arts

I Was Paralyzed By a Spinal Cord Injury – and It’s Made My Life More Fulfilling

Implanted neuroprosthesis doubles walking speed in 64-year-old stroke patient

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