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A Pennsylvania stroke survivor regained the use of her hand following a first-of-its-kind experiment where her spinal cord was zapped in spots that control arm motion.
In a pilot study, researchers implanted a device that zapped two stroke survivors spinal cords in spots that control hand and arm motion. When they switched it on, the arms could move.
In a novel experiment, two stroke survivors regained movement of their partially paralyzed hand and arm thanks to an implant that sends electric pulses to the spinal cord. It s not