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Intuitive, multidimensional motor unit control after paralysing spinal cord injury using non-invasive recordings

2025-12-12 neurology Title + abstract only
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in profound motor impairment for approximately 20 million people worldwide. Regaining hand use is one of their highest priorities. Interestingly, even severely affected individuals can still generate some level of muscle activity (EMG) in their paralysed muscles when attempting to perform a movement. Here we asked whether participants with no hand function due to a cervical SCI could still use their spared inputs to volitionally control the activity of motor unit...

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