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Scientists have developed a wireless musical glove which they claim could improve sensation and motor skills in people with paralysed spinal cord injury.
The gadget was successfully used by individuals with limited feeling or movement in their hands known also as quadriplegia,resulting in partial or total loss of use of all limbs and torso.
The device,called Mobile Music Touch (MMT),which looks like a workout glove with a small box on the back,is used with a piano keyboard and vibrates a persons fingers to indicate which keys to play. While learning to play the instrument,several people with spinal cord injury (SCI) experienced improved sensation in their fingers.
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Atlantas Shepherd Centre recently completed a study focusing on people with weakness and sensory loss due to SCI. After our preliminary work in 2011,we suspected that the glove would have positive results for people with SCI, said doctoral graduate Tanya Markow,the projects leader.
