Resumen de Preserved nerves control robot leg
Barras talks about how a man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over his prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it--all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and diverted to his thigh where they communicate with a robotic leg. During traditional amputation, sensory nerves are severed and lose their function. In 2006, Todd Kuiken and his colleagues at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago realized they could preserve some of that functionality by rerouting sensory nerves and attaching them to another part of the body. The nerve signals were then available for a robotic limb, enabling a person to control their prosthesis with the same nerves they had originally used to control their real limb.
