Sentences with phrase «reroute nerve»

They could then use the rerouted nerve signals to control a robotic limb, allowing a person to control their prosthesis with the same nerves they originally used to control their real limb.

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First, the team rerouted the two main branches of the man's sciatic nerve to muscles in the thigh above the amputation.

When nerves connecting the brain and spinal cord are severed, rerouting signals through local nerve cells can make movement possible again

In 2006, Todd Kuiken and his colleagues at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago in Illinois realised they could preserve some of that functionality by carefully rerouting sensory nerves during an amputation and attaching them to another part of the body.

Then they rerouted blood vessels and one or more types of nerves to the transplanted tissue from the nonparalyzed side of the face.

A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it — all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his thigh where they can be used to communicate with a robotic leg.