Rebuilding strength in the muscles used for speaking often depends on exercises that patients with voice disorders must practice largely on their own. Speech pathologists can prescribe muscle-strengthening routines, but they may see patients for only 30 minutes a week
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An estimated 18,000 spinal cord injuries occur in the United States each year, most often from vehicle accidents. After the surgery that typically follows such an injury, patients recover in the intensive care unit, where they remain at risk for
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For decades, scientists have been developing neuroprosthetic limbs, which use signals from the muscles left after an amputation to guide an artificial limb. Information about how far a muscle stretches, how fast it moves, and how strongly it activates can
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Many amputees struggle with prosthetic devices that cannot provide meaningful sensory feedback, leaving them unable to feel temperature, pressure, or texture during everyday tasks. Existing electronic skins attempt to address this gap, but they are often expensive, difficult to customize,
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Spinal cord injuries often lead to permanent loss of movement, sensation, and autonomic control because damaged neural pathways can no longer carry signals between the brain and the body. Current technologies typically focus on restoring only one function at a
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Severe spinal cord injuries often leave people without any ability to move or feel below the level of damage, and current treatments offer limited recovery. Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have developed a double neural bypass system
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Soft robots often struggle to generate strong, fast movements because their flexible materials cannot store and release energy as efficiently as rigid mechanical systems. Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed a new approach that allows soft robotic structures
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Chronic pain and movement disorders remain difficult to treat because many therapies require invasive surgery, implanted hardware, or long term medication that may not provide consistent relief. Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi have developed an
Stroke survivors often struggle to regain hand function because traditional rehabilitation tools cannot capture how the hand is used in daily life. Researchers at the University of Houston have developed wearable sensors that measure hand movement continuously, providing clinicians with
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Bone reconstruction remains difficult when large defects occur, because current implants often fail to match the mechanical behavior and biological complexity of natural bone. Researchers at Tampere University in Finland are working to solve this problem by developing 3D printed
