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A glove with sensors that uses music to help spinal cord injury victims regain mobility.

When someone suffers a spinal cord injury, often a part of the brain that is associated with motor abilities becomes dormant. Well, researchers are attempting to determine if renewed brain activity in those areas could increase motor ability. And they using a a sort of musical glove to do it.

As reported by Forbes Magazine and others, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have developed a glove that may improve motor ability in individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury.

The glove has sensors in each of the fingers and is linked to a computer and a piano keyboard. A song it played and the computer sends a message to sensors in the glove which create vibrations indicating the correct fingers to use on the keyboard. And at the same time, lights on the keyboard illuminate indicating which keys to play.

The results of their research so far have revealed that the glove is able to create renewed mobility and sensation in the injury victims.

But what is even more interesting, is that the study was done with individuals who had suffered a spinal cord injuries over a year prior. This time period is important because after a year from the injury, most spinal cord injury victims do not have the types of improvements in mobility seen in the study.

What researchers plan to do next is use MRIs to measure and study whether or not this stimulation to the fingers is stimulating the sensory cortex in the hands of the injury victims.

Source: http://www.burlisonlaw.com/blog/?p=5469

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