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Physicians and biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins report what they believe is the first successful effort to wiggle fingers individually and independently of one another using a mind-controlled ...

March 29 (UPI) --Break-through technology gave a man with quadriplegia the ability to move his right arm and hand again after not being able to for nearly a decade. Bill Kochevar was paralyzed below ...

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A man with an amputated arm has been given a bionic hand in a surgical breakthrough in Sweden. A study published in Science Translational Medicine on July 12 shows how the patient can now control the ...

Casts haven’t changed much, over time. Maybe it’s because the job they have to do is so simple: Keep the limb stable, steady, and stiff. But they also have to meet other, collateral demands: For ...