Meet the first stroke patient to use a robotic arm controlled by his brain waves.
Watch more on iWantTFC When 68-year-old Oswald Reedus suffered a stroke in Sept. 2014, he lost the ability to speak, walk and move his left arm. His wife Elizabeth called emergency services to their Richmond, Texas home when he couldn’t respond clearly.
Through years of therapy, the retired FedEx driver eventually regained his speech, although he has some difficulty due to aphasia caused by the stroke. He has limited mobility in his left arm and uses a brace on his left leg to walk. The headset’s lead designer, University of Houston engineering professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, said the call-and-response between the brain, body and robotic movement helps rewire a stroke patient’s brain to gradually regain limb movement through a process called neuroplasticity.
“Robots will provide a repetitive, predictable movement,” Dr. Francisco said. “Robots will not get tired, so that it can provide the necessary amount of repetitions because we know that certain amount of repetition is required in order for us to rewire that part of the brain that is responsible for movement.”
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