Up close and personal with a Neural Prosthesis

As a reader of this series you have seen this phrase a lot. I probably shouldn’t refer to it as a burden because it is more of a…

This research program requires travel to and from the laboratories in Cleveland. That is simply part of the commitment by research…

With 24 channels, you can image how many options there are for stimulating muscles using the implanted neural prosthesis. True, the system…

Trying to recover from the fog of anesthesia, I recall there was a video the physical therapist showed me after waking up from the second…

What is your habit? Maybe reaching for a cup of coffee in the morning, putting on a seatbelt when you get in a car or dropping your keys in…

The second surgery to complete the upgraded implanted neural prosthesis

This was a first for me. After surgery, the physical therapist’s direction was not to exercise. It seems a little counter intuitive but no…

Powering the new implanted IST-16 for the neural prosthesis

Now that we know what changed inside, what is going on outside post-surgery of the implanted neural prosthesis?