UW's 3-D Printed Orthoses for Hemiplegia

The diagnosis was hemimegalencephaly, a rare condition in which one half of the brain develops abnormally larger than the other. The seizures, a symptom of the condition, lasted minutes, consuming Jayna’s entire being. Medication didn’t work. The only answer, at 28 days old, was a hemispherectomy - performed on the youngest patient in the world at the time - by Seattle Children’s neurosurgeon and Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) member Dr. Jeff Ojemann. The surgery to remove the right hemisphere of her brain was successful, but the outlook was dim.
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