# The beginning of the end of quadriplegia?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 27, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-quadriplegia/600960 "2011-10-27T13:29:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-quadriplegia/600960/1 "2011-10-27T13:29:43Z")

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Saw this link the other day - can’t now remember via what source, but I don’t think it’s been discussed here…

[Paralyzed man moves artificial arm by thinking](http://neurogadget.com/2011/10/11/bionic-arm-to-use-fingers-like-real-ones/2783)

Is this basically the start of a completel cure for paralysis? Obviously this is all in prototype, but the next stage - making the robot arm into some sort of exoskeleton rather than separate from the man’s body - doesn’t sound that hard. And from there, creating the 6 million dollar man in real life seems like just an engineering problem…

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-quadriplegia/600960/2 "2011-10-27T22:27:32Z")

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A very interesting link.