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For the first time we were able to restore a real-time sensory feeling in an amputee

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while he was controlling this sensorized hand. It was quite amazing because suddenly I could

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feel something that I haven't been feeling for for nine years. My kids they thought it was was

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cool. They even called me the cable guy. We performed a four-week clinical trial

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implanting electrodes into the peripheral nerves. The hand has several

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sensors attached to each tendon of each finger. We can use these sensors to

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understand the level of force the patient was performing while grasping an

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object. We use this force information to deliver very precise stimulation to

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to the different sensory nerves in order to restore this real-time sensory feeling into

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the nervous system.

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You can feel round things and hard things and soft things and the feedback was totally

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new to me and suddenly when I was doing some movements I could feel actually what I was

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doing instead of looking what I was doing.

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I would love to have the new prosthesis because it is so amazing to feel something that you

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haven't been able to feel for so many years.