Comments on: Bionic arm technology reroutes nervous system

By: ankur shyam

ankur shyam — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:39:01 +0000

http://shyank2.sulekha.com/blog/post/2011/02/help-to-humanity.htm

http://h2htsc.blogspot.com/

kindly check these links ….these are my blogs concerned with bionic arm …. i want some info kindly send me if possible

By: Mike Mass

Mike Mass — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:59:20 +0000

It is great that technology has given us wonderful innovations such as these. Disabled individuals have been very thankful that they got such an opportunity. We should learn from that. Must we lose our hands/arms to fully notice it’s importance? We should celebrate our body by doing sports. We should also try to gain muscle and lose fat to know how wonderful our bodies are.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:33 +0000

This is really cool too – robotic technology is being used to extend the senses and mind – see http://www.esenseproject.org/

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:35:10 +0000

I saw an interview on tv a while back with someone who’d had that surgery and it was amazing thought there were limitations in the number of movements the arm could do. It’s encouraging to hear about development on that front.

By: Piper Wilson

Piper Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:54:31 +0000

Thank you.

By: Vaughan

Vaughan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:48:24 +0000

The procedure is not new, as it has been based on significant prior research as the link to the Wikipedia article and previous publications make clear, but it is innovative, as this is all from the same team who developed the procedure.
The reason it has hit the press is because of the JAMA paper which is the most extensive test of the viability and surprising effectiveness of the procedure in five patients compared to controls.

By: Piper Wilson

Piper Wilson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:40:30 +0000

I am curious about what Mo said.
I found references to the surgery dating back to 2007. I like this one the best because it has a diagram. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec07/5756
My question may not be answerable really. Why is this being released now as a press release if they’ve been doing it for two years? It seems to me like they knew then pretty much what they do now, except not as much.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:18:12 +0000

I should have re-read my own blog post: Mitchell’s prosthesis was actually fitted in 2006, so targeted muscle reinnervation is not nearly as innovative as the NYT article would suggest.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:06:30 +0000

In 2007, the same surgical team used this technique to fit amputee Claudia Mitchell with a prosthetic limb, making her world’s second recipient of a “bionic” arm: http://is.gd/jaUp

By: Sebastian Park

Sebastian Park — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:06:23 +0000

Brain implants for augmenting faulty cognitive functions is next. I’ll be first in line.