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Amputee Alfred Tennione tests out his artificial arm as Prosthetist Robert Lipschultz watches during a followup visit to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. The purpose of the visit was myotesting or searching for electrical activity from the muscles or EMGs that can be detected from the surface of the skin as Tennione's nerves-muscle grafts continue to take hold. The hope is, as the nerves reinnervate the muscle Tennione will be able to have control over more functions of the arm and hand. The EMGs are sensed through contact points in the socket and they activate the Boston Digital Arm System...Tennione's surgery earlier in the year essentially rerouted his nerve endings and grafting them into four separate regions of muscle near his amputation site. Electrical signals from these muscles or EMGs will be used to control a Boston Digital Arm..
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