"This is the first time that really
...after 20 years
paralyzed
...the signals...
are really doing something"

 

Discovering "Lost" Nerve Signals

Amsterdam artist Joost Hartog suffered a diving accident in 1988 which left him diagnosed as quadriplegic.

While he has limited movement of his arms, for which he compensates exceptionally well, he cannot effectively use his hands or fingers.

In fact, until he used NeuroSwitch for the first time in Amsterdam in August 2008, he believed he had no controllable signals in his arms at all.

Click HERE to see Joost in his first session with NeuroSwitch... and what he discovered.

Joost Hartog sound track "Now what... I was certain... really certain, that my fingers - look at this - that my fingers couldn't move... they don't."

(Background sounds of Joost's EMG signals registered as rapidly repeated tone on the NeuroSwitch speakers as he controls them through sensors on his right forearm).

"But there is still a signal, and I didn't really know that there was any, because my fingers are just nothing. But when I think about moving... listen... this is not a doorbell, this is me!"

(Sound of NeuroSwitch system tone, and siren generated by Joost's EMG signals).

"That's even better isn't it.
"All the time I was certain that the signals of my brain didn't do anything... just, only thinking.
"This is the first time that really after twenty years paralysed that the signals that are still developed in my brain right now" (signal tone) "are really doing something."

    

                      Joost Hartog
        with NeuroSwitch, Amsterdam,
                   17 August 2008


 
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