セキソン初心者の頃何かを検索していて、EUのFES研究プロジェクト"Stand up and walk"(SUAW) について知りました。(文末に掲載) "毎日電極を貼るのは容易ではない" "体内に埋め込まれアンテナで制御されるインプラント" "2本の杖を使う" "始動、減速、加速、方向転換など単純な指令の中から選ぶ"
Technology geared to the needs of the disabled "functional electrostimulation" techniques: two electrodes, placed on the skin, stimulate the underlying muscles, causing them to contract. "This method clearly has its limitations, however, becauseputting electrodes on someone, day in, day out, isn't all that easy," "The idea was to buildan implant, which would be placed inside the body and controlled by an antennawhich would send it radio signals. This antenna would in turn be connected to a walkman-sized portable programmer, containing the control system intelligence," In order to move, patents with paralysed lower limbs woulduse two crutchesincorporating the programmer control buttons (the "brain"). They would be able tochoose from a number of very simple commands: start, slow down, accelerate, change direction, etc. http://ec.europa.eu/research/success/en/med/0077e.html
Enabling a paraplegic to "Stand up and walk"(SUAW) : a European firstProject overview The limits of the project: * All paraplegics will not be able to recover the ability to walk through this technology which is only applicable to certain types of paralysis; * Even patients who are successfully implanted will continue to spend most of their life in a wheelchair; * Currently, it does not result in an elegant walk and crutches are still needed. A few more years of development are likely to be needed before a patient can walk up stairs; * The cost of such a technology will probably remain high and it is unlikely that a social security system would accept to reimburse it. http://ec.europa.eu/research/press/2000/pr1503en-annex.html