脊髄損傷を麻痺させた後,移動の自発的な制御を回復する

Rubia van den Brand1, Janine Heutschi, Quentin Barraud

  • 1Neurology Department, University of Zurich, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 2, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

この研究は,電気化学神経義肢とロボットインターフェースが,脊髄損傷のラットで移動能力を回復できることを示しています. 積極的な参加と皮質の再構築は,受動的なトレッドミールトレーニングとは異なり,回復の鍵です.

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