The key challenge for these patients is regaining the ability to perform daily activities after limb loss. Research focuses on objectives including restoring patients' sensation of movement (known as kinesthesia) and better control in the region of a missing limb by re-learning how to finely control muscles that could drive operation of prosthetic limbs and devices such as robotic hands.
Now a new collaboration between Stevens Institute of Technology and the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic offers hope for a quicker, more effective rehabilitation process.
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