Quadriplegic regains use of arm in medical first
American man paralysed from shoulders down can feed himself again using prosthesis: study
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A DECADE after a bike crash that left an American man paralysed from the shoulders down, he can again feed himself, researchers hailing a medical first reported on Wednesday.
The remarkable advance hinges on a prosthesis which circumvents rather than repairs his spinal injury, using wires, electrodes as well as computer software to reconnect the severed link between his brain and muscles.
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