News & Updates - Cleveland FES Center

Jennifer French: One of the First Bionic Women Shares the Value of the Neurotech Network

Cleveland FES Center, PeopleBy mraetomic February 2, 2016

Jennifer French from St. Petersburg, Florida, is an incomplete quadriplegic. Thanks to advancements in assistive technology, she can stand, transfer, exercise and live independently. To promote new studies, equipment, treatments and therapies that can help people with neurological problems easier, she and her husband created the Neurotech Network in 1998. This non-profit organization is dedicated to improving the education of…

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CWRU researchers laying groundwork for new type of pain relief

People, ResearchBy mraetomic December 21, 2015

A researcher at Case Western Reserve University has been awarded a four-year, $2.4 million federal grant to uncover how high-frequency electrical stimulation to the spinal cord reduces or eliminates chronic pain. Read more…

Dr. Kevin Kilgore receives $2.4 million federal grant

Cleveland FES Center, People, ResearchBy mraetomic December 9, 2015

A researcher at Case Western Reserve University received a $2.4 million federal grant to figure out why high-frequency electrical stimulation to the spinal cord reduces or eliminates chronic pain. Read more…

A Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel

Cleveland FES Center, Prosthetics, ResearchBy mraetomic November 19, 2015

An innovative prosthetic hand is allowing people to feel again Igor Spetic, 49, lost his right hand in a work related accident five years ago. But on Oct. 9, he got to bring home an innovative prosthetic hand for the first time, one that not only has more precise gripping, but gives him back his…

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Artificial Skin that is Sensitive to Touch

People, Prosthetics, ResearchBy mraetomic November 6, 2015

New Artificial Skin Is Sensitive to Touch and Feels Changes in Pressure It’s thin, flexible, made of organic material, and understands a range of pressures. Just like your fingertips. In fact, patches of this artificial skin already have been painted on mechanical hand-like prosthesis. Read more…

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Paralyzed Man’s Arm Wired to Receive Brain Signals

FES, Neural InterfaceBy mraetomic October 20, 2015

After doctors bridge his spinal injury with electronics, a paralyzed man can control his arm with his thoughts. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man’s spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant in his brain to move his arm and hand. Read more…

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P. Hunter Peckham, PhD presented Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s highest honor

Awards, People, ResearchBy mraetomic September 21, 2015

P. Hunter Peckham, PhD was presented the 2015 Case Western Reserve Medal for Health Science Innovation, the School of Medicine’s highest honor, for his efforts in advancing research, education, and care in extraordinary ways.

Therapy Leadership Council’s “Distinguished Clinician Award” for 2015

PeopleBy mraetomic September 14, 2015

Congratulations to Anne Bryden for receiving an award at the 2015 Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals meeting. Anne was awarded the Therapy Leadership Council’s “Distinguished Clinician Award” for 2015!!

The Jennifer French Story

FES, PeopleBy mraetomic June 30, 2015

At the age of 26, Jennifer French’s life changed after suffering injury to her spinal cord in a snowboard accident. 2 years after becoming a quadriplegic, she found help at the Cleveland FES Center where she became part of a neurotechnology study. Watch the video…

Restoring touch to a lost limb

Neural Interface, Prosthetics, ResearchBy mraetomic May 19, 2015

Researchers in Cleveland are adding a sense of touch to prosthetics that will allow amputees to feel again A team of researchers at the Cleveland VA Medical Center are working on a breakthrough technology that will return the sense of touch to those who have lost a hand. Read more…

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