Artificial Arm Listens to Brain
From: New York Times - 02/10/2009
By: Pam Belluck

Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, but these
days she plays football with her 12-year-old son, and changes diapers and
bearhugs children at the three Kiddie Cottage day care centers she owns in
Knoxville, TN.

Ms. Kitts, 40, does this all with a new kind of artificial arm that moves
more easily than other devices and that she can control by using only her
thoughts.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/health/research/11arm.html?_r=1&hp
http://iht.com/articles/2009/02/11/healthscience/11arm.php

Submitted by Nicki Lui

Links:
Amanda Kitts' Patient Story
http://www.ric.org/aboutus/stories/AmandaKitts.aspx

Neural Engineering Center for Bionic Medicine
http://www.ric.org/aboutus/stories/AmandaKitts.aspx

Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Real-time Myoelectric Control of
   Multifunction Artificial Arms 
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/301/6/619