NEWS: New Prosthetic System May Help Amputees Feel Again

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in the United States (US) have developed a new prosthetic system which they hope will allow amputees to feel using their artificial limbs.

According to research published online in Science Translational Medicine, two men who each lost a hand were able to feel the sensation of touch with the use of the system.

“The sense of touch is one of the ways we interact with objects around us,” said associate professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and director of the research, Dustin Tyler.

“The work reactivates areas of the brain that produce the sense of touch,” he said. “When the hand is lost, the inputs that switched on these areas were lost.”

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