Breakthrough technology decodes leg movement signals from nerves in amputees

Breakthrough technology decodes leg movement signals from nerves in amputees

A research team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has, for the first time, successfully decoded leg movements directly from the remaining nerves in people with above-knee amputations.

New implant can read leg movement signals from amputated nerves

When a person loses a leg above the knee, the nerves that once moved that leg don’t simply go quiet. They keep firing. The brain still sends signals down through what remains, still attempts to flex the ankle, extend the knee, curl the toes, even when none of those structures exist anymore. The signals travel to the end of what’s left and stop there, carrying movement instructions that have nowhere to go. For decades, those signals were essentia…

An AI Learned To Decode Phantom Limb Movements From Inside The Nerve: It Could Change Prosthetic Legs Forever

For the first time in human research, scientists have intercepted those signals and decoded intended movements across every joint of a missing leg, including the knee, ankle, and toes. The post An AI Learned To Decode Phantom Limb Movements From Inside The Nerve: It Could Change Prosthetic Legs Forever appeared first on StudyFinds.