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Technology Allows Amputees to Control Prosthetic Limbs

Healthcare and WellnessScientists have developed surgical techniques and technology that will allow amputees to control prosthetic limbs just as they would their own arms and legs.

By putting small pieces of muscle at the end of the nerves, the scientists say that the nerves would grow back into the muscle and reinnervate it. Then they can use that muscle as an interface to control the prosthesis.

U of M Surgeons and Engineers Enabling Amputees to Control Prosthetics with their Own Biological Motor Skills

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