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Provision Of Myoelectric Prosthesis For A Poland's Syndrome Patient

Kingston, Janet; Roland, John; Datta, Dipak (Myoelectric Symposium, 1993)
Quantifying Impaired Hand Function In The Clinical Environment

Light, C. M.; Chappell, P. H.; Kyberd, P. J. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1999)

The Southampton Hand Assessment Procedure (SHAP) has been developed specifically to enable the broadbased evaluation of hand function irrespective of the disability, thereby allowing assessment of both natural and prosthetic ...
A Quantitative Operational Performance Measuring System For A Myoelectric Hand: A Preliminary Study

Kajitani, Isamu; Nakamura, Takashi; Mita, Tomoki (Myoelectric Symposium, 2011)
REAL-TIME COMPUTER MODELING OF A PROSTHESIS CONTROLLER BASED ON EXTENDED PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPRIOCEPTION (EPP)

Farrell, Todd; Weir, Richard F.; Heckathorne, Craig W.; Childress, Dudley S. (Myoelectric Symposium, 2002)

Proprioception utilizes the physiological components of the nervous and musculoskeletal systems to allow an individual to sense the position of their limbs subconsciously. By providing a rigid connection to an object ...
REAL-TIME MYOELECTRIC CONTROL IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT TO RELATE USABILITY VS. ACCURACY

Lock, B.A.; Englehart, K.; Hudgins, B. (Myoelectric Symposium, 2005)

Many clinically available, upper-extremity prosthetic limbs provide myoelectric control of a single device, such as a hand, elbow, or wrist. Most commonly, these systems yield control information from myoelectric signal ...
Real-Time Recognition Of User Intent For Neural Control Of Artificial Legs

Zhang, Fan; Huang, He (Myoelectric Symposium, 2011)
Recent Advances In The Development Of Partial Hand Prostheses

Biden, Edmund; Bush, Greg; Olive, Murray; Young, Walter (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

Recently, two patients have presented with partial hand amputations in which the digits and distal ends of the metacarpals were missing, but the thumb was intact. One of these was a child with a congenital absence and the ...
RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN UPPER LIMB PEDIATRICS

Mandacina, Stephen (Myoelectric Symposium, 2005)

Not only are children fit with myoelectric arms at a much earlier age than years before, but also they are now much more functional and successful with these devices. Advancements such as microprocessor-based controls, ...
Reducing The Houston Flexible Wrist To Practice

Williams, T. Walley III. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1993)

In another paper Rosa Jacobs will describe the Houston Flexible Wrist and its successful use on a nurnber of children and adults. Reported here is the method followed for generating a production version of this wrist and ...
Re-Envisioning Reality For Rehabilitation: (A Past, Present & Future Look At Virtual Reality)

Sethna, Fram; Michael, John (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)

There has been much hyperbole over the past few years about Virtual Reality (VR). Could this phenomenon of transporting the human mind into a computer-generated world be important in the rehabilitation realm? Is it an area ...
Removal of ECG Artifacts from Myoelectric Prosthesis Control Signals

Zhou, Ping; Lowery, Madeleine M.; Weir, Richard F.; Kuiken, Todd A. (Myoelectric Symposium, 2005)

We investigated removal of electrocardiogram (ECG) artifacts from the myoelectric prosthesis control signals, taken from the reinnervated pectoralis muscles of a patient with bilateral amputations at shoulder disarticulation ...
RESIDUAL KINETIC VECTORS FOR PROSTHETIC CONTROL

Phillips, Sam L.; Flint, James A.; Craelius, William (Myoelectric Symposium, 2002)

Imagined phantom movements have real physiologic expressions within the residual limb, which we termed residual kinetic activity. In order to exploit the residual functions of transradial amputees we developed a system ...
Resolving The Limb Position Effect

Fougner, Anders; Scheme, Erik; Chan, Adrian D. C.; Englehart, Kevin; Stavdahl, Øyvind (Myoelectric Symposium, 2011)
RESULTS OF A STUDY WITH THE GOAL TO OPTIMISE HARNESSES BY MEANS OF UP-TO-DATE BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Thomas, Bertels (Myoelectric Symposium, 2002)

Body harnesses control body-powered and hybrid prostheses of the upper extremities. They transfer muscular forces from the amputee through motion of the shoulder girdle or stump directly to the artificial limb. The ...
Review Of Infant Fittings At The Institute Of Biomedical Engineering 13 Years Of Service

Stocker, Dinah; Caldwell, Robert; Wedderburn, Zadok (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)

The Institute of Biomedical Engineering at UNB opened it's myoelectric fitting centre called the Prosthetics Research Centre in the fall of 1981 with the first patient fitting in January of 1982. This paper only reports ...
The Role of Mental Health in O&P

Morris, Ruth M. (Myoelectric Symposium, 2008)

Why should O&P practitioners be concerned with the mental health of patients? A thorough understanding of issues facing amputees will assist prosthetists, technicians, and other professionals involved in rehabilitative ...
Sensor Options For Multi-Articulating Partial Hand Prostheses

Schulz, Stefan; Eichelbaum, Daniel; Valencia, Ricardo; Stach, Boris (Myoelectric Symposium, 2011)

The article gives an overview of various sensors options for partial hand prosthesis as a alternative to EMG sensors. The article analysed two kinds of Flexbend-Sensors and the Touch-Pad in combination with a electronic ...
SERVOPRO: An Alternative To Myoelectric Control For The Utah Artificial Arm

Sears, H. H.; Iverson, E. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1993)

High level amputees, i.e., patients with short above elbow, shoulder disaxticulation, and forequarter amputation level, and amputees with a brachial plexus injury, are among the most appropriate candidates for an externally ...
A SEVEN-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ARM WITH UNIQUE SHOULDER FUNCTION

Williams, T. Walley III (Myoelectric Symposium, 2005)

The most advanced powered prosthetic arm in 2005 is the experimental seven-degree-of-freedom (DOF) arm prepared for a bilateral shoulder disarticulation patient at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. The major components ...
SHOULDER DISARTICULATION FITTING WITH 6 INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLED MOTORS AFTER TARGETED HYPER-REINNERVATION NERVE TRANSFER SURGERY

Miller, L.A.; Lipschutz, R.D.; Weir, R.W.; Williams, T.W.; Stubblefield, K.A.; Heckathorne, C.W.; Kuiken, T.A. (Myoelectric Symposium, 2005)

In 2002, targeted hyper-reinnervation nerve transfer surgery was performed unilaterally on a bilateral shoulder disarticulation amputee. The goal of this surgery was to create additional sites using the remaining unused ...