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Stroke survivor moves hand for first time in nine years after spinal stimulation
A stroke survivor partially paralysed on her left side has been able to move her hand and arm for the first time in nine years following spinal cord stimulation. Heather Rendulic, who had a stroke in 2012 when she was 22, was left with no mobility in her left hand as a result of chronic post-stroke muscle weakness. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in the US used their new technology to stimulate Rendulic’s spinal cord in the neck area.
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