Griffith University Graduate’s ‘Thought Control’ Bicycle for Spinal Injury Rehab

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“Griffith medical graduate and Gold Coast University Hospital junior doctor, Dinesh Palipana thinks about walking a lot, since a car accident left him a quadriplegic part-way through his medicine degree,” writes Nina Ginsberg for Bicycles Create Change.

“Now he is pushing the pedals of a specially-adapted recline bike, and thanks to electronic muscle stimulation, he’s actually moving, in what is the first step towards a world-first integrated neuro-musculoskeletal rehabilitation program, being developed at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct (GCHKP).

Griffith biomechanical scientists and engineers Professor David Lloyd, Dr Claudio Pizzolato and his team, together with Dinesh as both researcher and patient, are aiming to use their ground-breaking 3D computer-simulated biomechanical model, connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) to capture Dinesh’s brainwaves, to stimulate movement, and eventually recovery.”

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