Sentences with phrase «paralyzed quadriplegics»

Together they are aiming to do what sounds miraculous: help paralyzed quadriplegics walk again, not by fixing their lesions or broken spines but by creating wearable robotic exoskeletons controlled by neural signals.

California About Blog A blog about a paralyzed quadriplegic in her daily life.

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Not all quadriplegics are paralyzed the same way.

A team led by Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue has implanted sensors in the brains of four quadriplegic patients that connect signals from the motor cortex to output devices, thereby enabling paralyzed patients to move computer cursors, control robotic limbs, and operate wheelchairs.

Ian Burkhart was 19 when he broke his neck, leaving him a quadriplegic, paralyzed and unable to move his upper body from the elbows down.

Ian Burkhart, a 23 - year - old quadriplegic from Dublin, Ohio, is the first patient to use Neurobridge, an electronic neural bypass for spinal cord injuries that reconnects the brain directly to muscles, allowing voluntary and functional control of a paralyzed limb.

Quadriplegic injuries do not always mean that a victim will become fully paralyzed in their limbs and torso.