Learning new movements after paralysis: Results from a home-based study.

摘要: Body-machine interfaces (BMIs) decode upper-body motion for operating devices, such as computers and wheelchairs. We developed a low-cost portable BMI survivors of cervical spinal cord injury investigated it means to support personalized assistance therapy within the home environment. Depending on specific impairment each participant, we modified interface gains restore higher level upper body mobility. The use over one month led increased range force at shoulders in chronic survivors. Concurrently, subjects learned reorganize their motions they practiced control computer cursor perform different tasks games. allowed generate any movement with body. Through practice demonstrated tendency increase similarity between used distinct tasks. Nevertheless, by end learning, some significant persistent differences appeared persist. This suggests ability central nervous system concurrently learn while exploiting possibility adapt available mobility spatio-temporal requirements task.