In the Pursuit of Touch
by Camila Rejalaga for @hackinhumans Since 710 BC humans have been trying to overcome the difficulties of not having a limb. For many generations, the purpose of prosthetics has been to feel an empty hole and not recovering the functions of what we have lost. This last century technology has allowed us to create prosthetic limbs that gives humans back the ability to run, grab objects, tie your shoe laces and other mundane stuff that we usually take for granted in life. But one thing has been missing from the equation, the ability to recover the senses of a lost limb, something deemed a limitation in bionic limbs. Thanks to technological innovation mind-controlled limbs are no longer a subject of a futuristic movie but an assured occurrence. To go into how we could control with our minds a prosthetic arm we must first understand the concept of targeted muscle reinnervation. John Hopkins Hospital defines it “as a new surgical procedure that reassigns nerves that once con
