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Share this on: In a paper published today in Nature Communications, Dr. Marco Capogrosso, assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, proposed a new technology to improve arm and hand movements in individuals with arm paralysis due to spinal cord injury, stroke or other movement disorders. …

Lyle Fleming had been waiting a long time to walk across the room. Thanks to technology, the power company lineman was able to get up out of his wheelchair and walk again. Fleming, who is from West Virginia, was paralyzed during a work-related incident six years ago, in which he fell 30 feet off a …