Short Takes: Restoring Touch

An innovative prosthetic system developed by researchers at the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R) at the University of Arkansas has allowed Arkansan Dewey Hickey to once again experience touch. Hickey, whose hand was amputated in 1963, is the first Arkansan and only the second person in the world to receive the novel prosthetic system, which restores a meaningful sense of touch and grip force to individuals with an upper limb amputation.