Functional Electrical Stimulation

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) is another term for neuromusclar electrical stimulation. It is an umbrella term to describe the process of using electrical currents, and electrode arrays to reactivate the peripheral nervous system in individuals who have suffered damage to the spinal cord or other location in their peripheral nervous system between the target muscle and the brain.

Working in a similar way to TMR, electrodes placed into the trunk nerves transmit the neural code pulses to command various body parts to move.

However, unlike TMR which interprets the desired intent pulses sent by the brain and converts them into mechanical commands to drive prosthetics where the organic body part was lost, FES does the exact opposite. It transmits the controlling neural codes into the muscles in cases of paralysis, where the direct link to the brain has been severed.

In both cases, the neural codes – the function calls the brain uses to order the muscles to move – are an essential, integral part of the procedure. FES is not about simply transmitting direct current electricity into the body, but pulsing the correct code at the correct frequencies, to make the muscles believe they have just received a valid command from the brain.

As a beneficial side-effect of increasing use of FES in conquering paralysis, an increasing number of neural codes to control muscles are being deciphered and reverse-engineered to general cases. These neural codes are then shared with other methods to artificially link the central or peripheral nervous system to augmentation prosthetics - methods such as BMI and TMR.

This in turn ties directly into benefitting smart prosthetics (sometimes known as active prosthetics), and direct brain-controlled VR interfaces, which also work off of reading the intended neural codes for the body, then blocking them physically and enacting them in the VR form instead.

See Also: NMES, Neural Coding, TMR, BMI

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