{"id":2190,"date":"2014-05-24T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2014-05-27T02:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T02:49:27","slug":"world-cup-medical-miracle-paralyzed-teen-kick-world-cups-first-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/world-cup-medical-miracle-paralyzed-teen-kick-world-cups-first-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Medical Miracle &#8211; Paralyzed teen to kick world cup&#8217;s first ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first ceremonial kick of the World Cup game (Brazil 2014) may be made by a paralyzed teenager, who, flanked by the two contending soccer teams, will saunter onto the pitch clad in a robotic body suit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/exoskeleton-nicolelis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2191\" alt=\"Exoskeleton Nicolelis\" src=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/exoskeleton-nicolelis.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/exoskeleton-nicolelis.jpg 500w, http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/exoskeleton-nicolelis-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Led by Miguel Nicolelis, the Walk Again Project is a nonprofit, international collaboration among the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering, the Technical University of Munich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal in Brazil, The University of California, Davis, The University of Kentucky, and Regis Kopper of The Duke immersive Virtual Environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nicolelis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2192\" alt=\"nicolelis\" src=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nicolelis.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nicolelis.jpg 620w, http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nicolelis-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This started with research from the Nicolelis lab using hair-thin and flexible sensors, known as microwires, that have been implanted into the brains of rats &amp; monkeys. These flexible electrical prongs can detect minute electrical signals, or action potentials, generated by hundreds of individual neurons distributed throughout the animals\u2019 frontal and parietal cortices\u2014the regions that define a vast brain circuit responsible for the generation of voluntary movements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/miguel-nicolelis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2193\" alt=\"Miguel Nicolelis\" src=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/miguel-nicolelis.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/miguel-nicolelis.jpg 620w, http:\/\/indogomagazine.com\/indogo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/miguel-nicolelis-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, with further advancements, the candidate teenage kicker will be trained in Virtual Reality to control technology that will eventually allow them to kick the ball at the world cup. They will do this by wearing a non-invasive headpiece that detects brain waves.<\/p>\n<p>======================================<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"236\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/xBl7uTHyXJE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"236\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/F0vtBIRpjws?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Miguel Nicolelis lab&#8217;s World Cup Medical Miracle<br \/>\nsource: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first ceremonial kick of the World Cup game (Brazil 2014) may be made by a paralyzed teenager, who, flanked by the two contending soccer teams, will saunter onto the pitch clad in a robotic body suit. 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