Prosthetists have been fitting externally-powered components to individuals with “shoulder disarticulation”, upper extremity amputations for decades. These components have ranged from momentary contact switches that ...

The gentleman in this case study presents with the typical etiology of a brachial plexus injury, status post motorcycle accident. The accident occurred several years ago with surgical intervention including a shoulder ...

Lower limb prostheses have traditionally been mechanically passive devices without electronic control systems. Microprocessor-controlled passive and powered devices have recently received much interest from the clinical ...

The prosthetic design being discussed is that of a tanstadial myoelectric, dual site-dual control system, The residual limb is, in this case, not the factor for variance of pi osthetic design, however, it is other extenuating ...