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Reward_Antique t1_j2cs1pq wrote

I am just in awe of this... i have major nerve damage in my spinal cord and although I'm incredibly, like, incredibly lucky to be alive and mobile, I can't control my left hands fingers, i wonder is this would be something that would someday be appropriate for people like me...

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Fire548 t1_j2ddd6v wrote

What do they do?

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Jkarofwild t1_j2dl1ht wrote

They just kinda sit there. They can't control them.

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Reward_Antique t1_j2ee96r wrote

They lack strength and i can't control specifically my ring and pinkie on my left hand- they move, when i make a fist, etc, but just as an example, I took pottery lessons a few years ago hoping it would be a good and satisfying therapy, and it was! But, every time I was at the pottery wheel, trying to hollow out a form, you use one hand (dominant hand, my right) to push down and your other hand to push in at the side. Well, my two non-cooperative fingers on the left hand would flip right into and under the centered clay and splat the whole situation at speed into the workroom mirror haha

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[deleted] t1_j2e6l48 wrote

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DrMangosteen t1_j2e7yqi wrote

>Neuralink would help as well. It’s still in development though

Smashing X to doubt

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aluked t1_j2e6xvl wrote

Just needs to kill a few dozen hundred apes more to get there.

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