title: New Prostheses and Orthoses Step Up their Game: Motorized Knees, Robotic Hands, and Exosuits Mark Advances in Rehabilitation Technology.
abstract: Forty years ago, Les Baugh lost both of his arms in an electrical accident. With bilateral shoulder-level amputations, his options for prosthetic arms were limited. That changed two years ago, when Baugh underwent a surgical procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore that allowed him to control state-of-the-art robotic arms using nerves that had been rerouted to his chest. Within ten days of training, he was able to control both arms simultaneously and move a cup from a lower shelf to a higher shelf-a task that previously had been impossible-just by thinking about how he wanted to move his arm.
authors.forename: Summer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D001186:Artificial Limbs; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012371:Robotics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation