{"id":241018,"date":"2026-07-16T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/implant-helps-paralyzed-man-to-feed-himself-and-drink-from-a-cup"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:12:01","slug":"implant-helps-paralyzed-man-to-feed-himself-and-drink-from-a-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/implant-helps-paralyzed-man-to-feed-himself-and-drink-from-a-cup","title":{"rendered":"Implant helps paralyzed man to feed himself and drink from a cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iORAa2SBPCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A neuroprosthetic system has helped a man with paralysis move his hand and feel touch again following a spinal cord injury, reports research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-026-04498-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Medicine<\/i>. Some of the system\u2019s benefits continued even when the device was turned off, suggesting that it may support longer-term recovery as well as help movement in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Spinal cord injury is a leading cause of paralysis, and more than half of cases involve tetraplegia, in which movement of the arms and legs is affected. Complete spinal cord injuries, in which there is no voluntary movement or feeling below the level of the injury, are particularly difficult to treat. Previous brain\u2013computer interface systems have helped restore some movement but have not yet restored a sense of touch or supported longer-term recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Bouton and colleagues developed a \u201cdouble neural bypass\u201d system that reads brain signals linked to a person\u2019s intention to move. It then uses these signals to help control a person\u2019s own hand by delivering targeted stimulation to the spinal cord and the part of the brain involved in touch, the primary somatosensory cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neuroprosthetic system has helped a man with paralysis move his hand and feel touch again following a spinal cord injury, reports research published in Nature Medicine. Some of the system\u2019s benefits continued even when the device was turned off, suggesting that it may support longer-term recovery as well as help movement in real time. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}