Forbes February 23, 2024
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in prosthetic sensory feedback.
In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore normal function to tissues and organs damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. I include a full spectrum of chemical, gene, and protein-based medicines, cell-based therapies, and biomechanical interventions that achieve that goal.
New prosthetic technologies may allow amputees to feel real-time temperature sensations. In a study for Med, Dr. Jonathan Muheim and colleagues from the Neuro-X Institute describe a haptic system to provide amputees with controlled phantom thermal sensation. The system could be integrated into commercially available prosthetics, allowing the amputee...
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