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February 18 2021
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New amputation technique can improve prosthetic limb control

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Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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Many teams work to improve the prostheses of those who have an amputation. A new, promising approach thinks about how to prepare the body.

For some time we have been working on prosthetic limbs to make them more and more suitable for the body. Researchers at MIT are taking a different approach, also working on the body: a new type of amputation can facilitate the use of prostheses.

Most arm and leg movements involve two muscles, one of which stretches while the other contracts. They call them "agonist-antagonist pairs". Biceps and triceps are a good example: when a person bends the elbow, the biceps muscle contracts while the triceps muscle stretches. This movement transmits sensory feedback to the brain, helping it keep track of the position of the arm. What happens when there is an amputation?

In most conventional limb amputation techniques, the joined ends of the paired muscles are cut off. This is preventing them from communicating properly with each other. As a result, the muscle signals that are sent to the brain are confused. And for many of those who have an amputation they have to watch what theirs are doing prosthesis, in order to guide its movement.

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The new amputation procedure

In the new procedure, called agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), the severed ends of the paired muscles rejoin after the amputation itself has occurred. This reconnects their communication system, allowing the brain to better assess where the missing section of the limbs would be in three-dimensional space, if it were still attached.

After an initial mouse test dated 2017, MIT recently submitted 25 patients AMI surgery at Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. Scientists from MIT they rated 15 of those people, each of which underwent a single amputation below the knee.

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Shriya Srinivasan, author of the research paper

The test

consisted of having patients lie down with both legs raised, without a prosthesis in place. They were then asked to flex both their intact ankle joint and that of their "phantom limb" to varying degrees, while the electrodes on both legs monitored the electrical activity of the muscles. Compared to a control group that had received a conventional amputation, amputees were found to have IMA they had much finer control over their phantom ankle - this was evidenced by the fact that the electrical signals in the stump of the amputated leg were significantly more similar to those in their intact leg, on which the ankle was actually moving. Similarly, brain scans showed they were receiving more sensory feedback from residual muscles. And as a side benefit, the IMA group reported much less residual limb pain.

Further studies will be needed. Especially to see if the benefits of the procedure actually translate into better control over a real attached prosthesis. Scientists have developed a version of surgery known as "regenerative MI". In this version, the grafted muscle segments can be used to reconnect severed agonist-antagonist muscles in traditional amputation.

A research paper, led by the postdoctoral student Shriya Srinivasan, was recently published in the journal Science Translational Medicine .

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Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

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