This new device could help people with spinal cord injuries restore function in their hands and arms
A new device may help patients who have lost movement in their hands and arms gain that function again. Other trials aiming to help spinal cord injury patients using electrical stimulation required devices implanted into the patient's body. The new ARC-EX device invented by researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Washington, can be worn externally and was part of a trial involving 65 patients in the US and one in Scotland. With electrodes placed near the cervical spinal cord on the neck, the device is designed to send a powerful electrical curre...