Actuation and control of limbs through motor nerve stimulation

   
   

Apparatus for actuating a skeletal muscle of a patient is provided. The apparatus typically includes a plurality of electrodes, which are adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a motor nerve that innervates the skeletal muscle. A control unit, is preferably adapted to drive a current between two or more of the plurality of electrodes, and to configure the current such that a first subset of axons in the nerve is excited by the current and such that a second subset of axons in the nerve is not excited by the current.

El aparato para actuar un músculo esquelético de un paciente se proporciona. El aparato incluye típicamente una pluralidad de electrodos, que se adaptan para ser colocados en una vecindad de un nervio del motor ese los innervates el músculo esquelético. Una unidad de control, se adapta preferiblemente para conducir una corriente entre dos o más de la pluralidad de electrodos, y para configurar la corriente tales que un primer subconjunto de axons en el nervio es excitado por la corriente y tal que un segundo subconjunto de axons en el nervio no es excitado por la corriente.

 
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