Paralysed by perfection

Transporting Severely Paralysed Patients

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The paralysed hand.

The title of this beautifully produced volume suggests a much more limited subject matter than that which it contains and in this as in other respects it somewhat resembles Rehabilitation of the Hand by Wynn Parry although written from a more surgical viewpoint as is appropriate. The first section on aetiology and investigation includes a lucid account of the peripheral nerves of the upper limb...

Recovery in partly paralysed muscles.

Until recent years it was widely held that damage to part of the nerve supply of a voluntary muscle had a permanent effect and that the surviving nerve fibres were unable to reinnervate muscle fibres deprived of their nerve supply. It was assumed that the only possibility of recovery of power in the muscle was by hypertrophy of muscle fibres whose nerve supply had escaped damage. The problen ha...

Regenerating Perfection.

Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons

A potential treatment for paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury is to route control signals from the brain around the injury by artificial connections. Such signals could then control electrical stimulation of muscles, thereby restoring volitional movement to paralysed limbs. In previously separate experiments, activity of motor cortex neurons related to actual or imagined movements has b...