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Toward the Restoration of Hand Use to a Paralyzed Monkey: Brain-Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation of Forearm Muscles

Loss of hand use is considered by many spinal cord injury survivors to be the most devastating consequence of their injury. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) of forearm and hand muscles has been used to provide basic, voluntary hand grasp to hundreds of human patients. Current approaches typic...

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Autores principales: Pohlmeyer, Eric A., Oby, Emily R., Perreault, Eric J., Solla, Sara A., Kilgore, Kevin L., Kirsch, Robert F., Miller, Lee E.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19526055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005924