"It kind of shocks the muscle." The FES bike can play an important role in physical therapy not only for paralyzed patients, but for those with neuromuscular diseases such as cerebral palsy ...

The component will become the wheel of one of the world’s fastest track bicycles. “There’s no other bike like the ones made at FES,” he says. Ready to ride FES is short for Institut für Forschung und ...

Paralyzed from the shoulders down after a diving accident in Australia a year ago, Loretta since November has exercised five days a week on the FES bike and with a similar electrical stimulator ...

Now the team of researchers and engineers, led by Triolo, is using the implant to participate in the Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) bike race at the Cybathlon. The group, also known as ...

If the timing is off you get knocking or backfiring,” he said. Midwinter got his FES bike in 2012, about a year after his accident, and has been using it regularly ever since. He brings in a ...

Funds for the FES bike were provided by a grant from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research and ...

Last February, Midwinter recorded his 40,075th kilometre on his FES bike. In less than 10 years, he had cycled the equivalent of the earth’s circumference at the equator. In speaking to ...

Almost from the first day Margaret was at KKI, she was using an FES bike in daily therapy. The bike provides electrical stimulation to targeted muscle groups while Margaret is using either her ...