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Restoring Natural Sensation to Leg Prostheses (2 of 4)

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Restoring Natural Sensation to Leg Prostheses (2 of 4)

video: An amputee who received the neural interface (AMI) demonstrates his control over a leg prosthetic. The prosthetic's movement was smoother and more stable compared to a second amputee's traditional prosthetic. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 May, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.R. Clites at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "Proprioception from a neurally controlled lower-extremity prosthesis." view more 

Credit: T.R. Clites <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)


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