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·March 19, 2018·4 min read

Paraplegic Rat Walks Again After Therapy, and Now We Know Why

Using electrochemical stimulation and robot assisted rehabilitation techniques, researchers restore walking ability in a paraplegic rat. The study reports reorganization of neural branching in the reticular formation leads to new connections and is key to motor skill recovery.

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·November 16, 2017·4 min read

Paraplegic Rats Walk and Regain Feeling After Stem Cell Treatment

In a groundbreaking study, researchers use engineered tissue derived from human stem cells to treat rats with paraplegia following spinal cord injury. The transplanted cells allowed the rats to regain sensory perception, improve mobility and helped with spinal cord healing.

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·October 30, 2017·2 min read

Virtual Reality Reduces Phantom Pain in Paraplegics

Researchers use virtual reality technology to help generate an alternative body illusion and relieve phantom body pains in paraplegic patients.

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·September 30, 2016·4 min read

New Hope For People Obsessed With Amputating Their Own Limbs

Researchers are developing new solutions to help those with body identity integrity disorder and to keep them from their desire to self harm.

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·August 11, 2016·9 min read

Paraplegics Regain Some Feeling After Using Brain Machine Interfaces

Researchers have developed a brain machine interface that incorporates virtual reality which has allowed some paraplegic patients to regain some feeling in their limbs.

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·September 23, 2015·5 min read

Ability to Walk Restored for Man Paralyzed for Five Years

Researchers use direct brain control to allow a man paralyzed for five years to walk again.

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·January 13, 2015·3 min read

Researchers Identify Important Control Mechanisms for Walking

Researchers claim to have decoded the spinal cord activation patterns for walking.

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·June 10, 2014·3 min read

‘All Systems Go’ for a Paralyzed Person to Kick off the World Cup

A paralyzed person is expected to make the first kick in the World Cup this year, thanks to a new brain controlled exoskeleton with a sense of touch, designed by researchers at TUM.