In life, we all have problems. We make wrong decisions sometimes, and we also make some mistakes that affect us for the rest of our lives. So what I am trying to say is that you can have an injury, like how you get paralyzed and you can not walk again. So this is the top four solutions to solve this epidemic of people that have been paralyzed and ride a wheelchair for many years. So, what invention could you make the people who is paralyzed walk again? The first one I am gonna do is the first solution which is spine stimulation. Spine Stimulation or Spinal Cord stimulation is a device that exert pulsed electrical signals to your spine (“Spinal cord stimulator”). This has been tested on some of the patents or people who has been paralyzed.
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Gate Control theory means chronic pain in the lower back. (“Cherry”).Then in 1971 was first reported the analgesic properties of epidural spinal cord stimulation (“Spinal cord stimulator”). So that is the history of the Spine Stimulation, but today they are still doing some test to help some of the people who are disabled. So this is how the spine stimulation works they have to open your lower back and put it between your nerves and your bones.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) Also they implants a device that sends electrical signals to the spine. Do you know what does this do? It reawakens the spinal cords and reminds of its potential to move its legs.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) But today only 4 individuals get to flex their legs, toes, ankles, and knees. In my opinion it is very interesting that only 4 people succeeded in this experiment.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) Because there are thousands and thousands of people who are also paralyzed to neither sports, war, or any other accidents.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) But there is a reason why there are so little people who is testing, because there the cost to even to look at the spine stimulation. Also …show more content…
These powered exoskeletons have been making their way into paralysis rehabilitation for years now (“Lewis”). At first it was used in the military and then years after that it was reused for patients who have been paralyzed ("Powered Exoskeleton"). There have been attempts to make wearable robotic suits that have date back to the 1970s ("Powered Exoskeleton"). Which is a good plus for the future that could develope the suit to perform better but it is still gonna need more work than what we have. So this is how the exoskeletons work, it is runned by battery powered motors drive the legs, and sensors in the device trigger to take steps when the user shifts his or her weight (“Lewis”). The commercial version of this product or the exoskeleton did came out in 2010 (“Lewis”). The technology does not yet enable paralyzed individuals to walk again under the patents brain control (“Lewis”). Some researchers have attempted to combine brain-computer interfaces and exoskeletons (“Lewis”). Like how some of the other solutions are, this project might take a step closer to a world with empty wheelchairs
Gate Control theory means chronic pain in the lower back. (“Cherry”).Then in 1971 was first reported the analgesic properties of epidural spinal cord stimulation (“Spinal cord stimulator”). So that is the history of the Spine Stimulation, but today they are still doing some test to help some of the people who are disabled. So this is how the spine stimulation works they have to open your lower back and put it between your nerves and your bones.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) Also they implants a device that sends electrical signals to the spine. Do you know what does this do? It reawakens the spinal cords and reminds of its potential to move its legs.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) But today only 4 individuals get to flex their legs, toes, ankles, and knees. In my opinion it is very interesting that only 4 people succeeded in this experiment.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) Because there are thousands and thousands of people who are also paralyzed to neither sports, war, or any other accidents.(“Spinal cord stimulator”) But there is a reason why there are so little people who is testing, because there the cost to even to look at the spine stimulation. Also …show more content…
These powered exoskeletons have been making their way into paralysis rehabilitation for years now (“Lewis”). At first it was used in the military and then years after that it was reused for patients who have been paralyzed ("Powered Exoskeleton"). There have been attempts to make wearable robotic suits that have date back to the 1970s ("Powered Exoskeleton"). Which is a good plus for the future that could develope the suit to perform better but it is still gonna need more work than what we have. So this is how the exoskeletons work, it is runned by battery powered motors drive the legs, and sensors in the device trigger to take steps when the user shifts his or her weight (“Lewis”). The commercial version of this product or the exoskeleton did came out in 2010 (“Lewis”). The technology does not yet enable paralyzed individuals to walk again under the patents brain control (“Lewis”). Some researchers have attempted to combine brain-computer interfaces and exoskeletons (“Lewis”). Like how some of the other solutions are, this project might take a step closer to a world with empty wheelchairs