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...ultimate hope of every spinal cord-injury victim is that crippled limbs will work again. That dream seems tantalizingly close for a 22-year-old paraplegic in Dayton. Using a computer-based locomotion system, Nan Davis, a senior at Wright State University, recently stood up in front of television news cameras, took half a dozen halting strides and said with a laugh, "One small step for mankind." Davis has been paralyzed from the rib cage down as a result of an auto crash in 1978, on the night of her high school graduation...
Throughout her programmed "walk" at the Wright State biomedical engineering lab, Davis was bolstered by props. She was strapped to a parachute harness that supported a third of her 130 Ibs., and she gripped a pair of parallel bars as her legs stepped ahead of her down the 10-ft. walkway. Nonetheless, her achievement marked an important development: the marriage of 200-year-old electrical stimulation techniques to today's high-speed computers...
...enormous difficulties. At present, the $200,000 system can only direct one foot to move in front of the other. Before it can be put to practical use, Petrofsky's 150-lb. device must be streamlined and miniaturized. "It's a mass of wires right now," says Wright State Technician Harry Heaton. "But it will eventually be a small microprocessor capable of being implanted pacemaker-style." Petrofsky says his system might be ready for commercialization within a decade. Others in the field find his optimism misleading. Says Dr. Paul Meyer, past president of the American Spinal Injury Association...
...Scott Martin '83 of Winthrop House. Peter S Nickerson '83 of Dudley House. Laurence Eric Penn '83 of Dunstern House. Jonathan Selinger '83 of Mather House. Albert C Shaw '83 of Leverett House. Jordan W. Smoller '83 of North House. Chi Hung Wong '83 of Mather House. Gregory A Wright '83 of North House. Andy S Zelleke 83 of Winthrop House, and Philip M Zukowski '83 of Mather House...
When Patricia Wright '83 was a freshman, she spent her Christmas vacation away from her hometown of Portsmouth. Virginia, undergoing an operation in a Boston hospital. Her own family could not be there, but Wright had a Harvard-supplied "host mother" who visited her in the hospital daily and provided a home where Wright could recuperate for a month...