00:03This might look like your average rehabilitation machine anyone might use after an accident, but it's not.
00:09This is a new device undergoing clinical trials and it's returning motor function to this man, Oswald Reedus,
00:15who has been unable to use the left side of his body or speak since having a stroke in 2014.
00:20The machine is a two-part system, one that reads the brainwaves of an individual
00:24and detects when they want to move a body part, and then it moves its robotic arm slightly,
00:29with the user then making the rest of the movement on their own.
00:32And Reedus is hopeful he'll regain the finer motor function of his arm.
00:35Now that the University of Houston developed device has been installed in his home,
00:39the machine is meant to rewire the brain after a stroke,
00:42allowing users to slowly build new pathways to use their limbs once again.
00:45It's a process called neuroplasticity, and Dr. Gerald Francisco, the lead physician working on this project, says,
00:51it's all about exercise and repetition.
00:53Robots will provide a repetitive, predictable movement.
00:59Robots will not get tired so that it can provide the necessary amount of repetitions,
01:05because we know that certain amount of repetition is required in order for us to rewire that part of the
01:11brain
01:11that is responsible for movement.
01:14And it's giving stroke victims like Reedus a future worth fighting for.
01:19Bye-bye.
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