Grouping Muscles To Make Controlling Limbs Easier
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 15:56
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have shown that it could be possible to control a limb by stimulating groups of muscles rather than individual muscles -- a finding that could be useful in future treatments of paralysis patients. The research team used a model of the muscles in a frog's hind leg to perform a computational analysis that shows researchers can control the limb using muscle groups just about as well as if they controlled individual muscles.