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...high school first baseman, Gordon has recently been working at the catcher position, although her progress has momentarily been delayed due to a rotator cuff injury...
Such is the case going into Ivy play—Whitton has been temporarily out of the rotation with rotator cuff injuries, but the team hasn’t missed a beat...
...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
Marie's artificial visual system is called the Microsystem-based Visual Prosthesis (MIVIP) and was designed by Claude Veraart and collaborators at the University of Louvain. The MIVIP consists of a cuff electrode implanted around Marie's right optic nerve. The electrode wraps around the optic nerve like the little plastic sheath on the end of a shoelace. It is connected to a thin cable that snakes its way from the optic nerve exiting the back of Marie's eye and weaves around the outside of her brain to the stimulator implanted in a small cavity in her cranium...
...says Mara Baun, a University of Texas nursing professor who has co-authored 13 studies on the medical benefits of animal companions. "The staff could not get him away from the door. But the golden retriever--who had never been trained to do this--took him by the cuff of his sleeve, and he followed quietly...