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Management Of The Person With Bilateral Arm High-Level Amputations

Uellendahl, J. E.; Heckathorne, C. W. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

Over the past ten years, the Prosthetics Clinical Services Department of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has treated thirty-six (36) persons with bilateral arm amputations. Of these, twenty-three had sustained ...
Improved Compensation Of Gravitational Torque At The Shoulder

Williams, T. Walley, III (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

A simple analysis of prosthetic shoulders reveals that they are mainly used to position the orientation of the elbow in relatively few fixed positions. For some tasks the elbow needs to be positioned forward of the shoulder ...
Hybrid Transradial Prosthesis For A Complete Brachial Plexus Injury: A Case Study

Lipschutz, Robert D. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

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 ...
Evaluation Of Built-In Lithium-Ion Batteries Used As Energy Source For Externally Powered Upper-Limb Prostheses - Preliminary Results

Stavdahl, Oyvind; Hermansson, Liselotte; Pettersson, Sven-Olov; Kristensen, K. Tomm; Malvig, Kjell E. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

New battery technologies bear the potential to greatly increase the benefits of powered upperlimb prostheses. The present study involved monitoring of the charge capacity of 35 Lithium-Ion batteries over an 18-months period, ...
Electrochemical Burns: A Risk With Myoelectric Prostheses

Scott, Bob; Caldwell, Bob; Bush, Greg (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

The authors describe their experience myoelectric prostheses, with incidents of minor trauma, to users of which is thought to be associated with electrochemical bums arising from a dc potential existing between electrodes. ...
Emg Amplitude Estimation: A Review Of The Past And A Look Towards The Future

Clancy, Edward A. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

The amplitude of the surface EMG is frequently used as the control input to myoelectric prostheses, as a measure of muscular effort, and has also been investigated as an indicator of muscle force. This paper will review ...
Critical Success Factors For A Myoelectric Trans Radial Fitting

Alley, Randy D. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

During a single training workshop for 23 experienced prosthetist accompanied by certified occupational therapists, a total of seven subjects were fitted with transradial myoelectric prostheses. A great range of componentry ...
Casting To Make A Frame Socket For Use With FSR Pressure Pads

Williams, T. Walley, III (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

A technique is described to cast for a frame socket to be used with Force Sensing Resistors (FSR's) The technique produces the largest number of control sites and ensures that at each site all forces on the FSRs are normal ...
Boston Elbow With Liniited Variable Joint Stiffness

Smitts, Matthijs P. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

Perhaps more than anything, amputees want to engage in normal activities of daily living without attracting attention to their disability. Their best hope of achieving this is with a lifelike prosthesis that operates by ...
Applying Genetic Programming To Control Of An Artificial Arm

Farry, Kristin; Fernandez, Jaime; Abramczyk, Robert; Novy, Mara; Atkins, Diane (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

Robotics researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Rice University have made substantial progress in myoelectric teleoperation. A myoelectric teleoperation system translates signals generated by an able-bodied ...
An Investigation Into The Effectiveness Of Fitting Powered Upper Limb Prostheses: "The UNB Experience"

Biden, E. N.; Caldwell, R.; Leckey, R. J.; Stocker, D.; Lovely, D. F. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)
All Electronic Prostheses For A Bilateral Transhumeral Amputee

Miguelez, John (Myoelectric Symposium, 1997)

L. A. has bilateral transhumeral amputations as a result of electrical burns. There is no myoelectric activity on the left side and minimal activity on the right. Only the Utah ServoPro would provide elbow and ID control ...
Upper Limb Prosthetics Research, Are There Direct Benefits For The Amputee?

Bush, Greg (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)
The Development Of A Programmable Prosthetic Controller

Kurtz, Isaac; Bishop, John; Farr, Stephen; Naumann, Stephen (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)
The Evolution Of Otto Bock Myo-Electric Systems For The Pediatric Patient

Sanderson, Terry (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)

There has in the past, and there continues to be controversy over pediatric prosthetic fittings with myo-electric systems. Who are we fitting, the parent or the patient? At what age should we fit, and what components should ...
Strategies For Controlling Several Powered Devices

Williams, T. Walley, III (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)

When it is not possible to control two devices independently, mode selection schemes are used to shift one good control source like two good myoelectric sites so that two or duet devices can be controlled. The Boston Elbow ...
Simple Solutions For A Complex Problem: Variations Of A Transradial Myoelectric Prosthetic Design

Lipschutz, Robert D. (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Proportional Control - True Physiological Control -

Robinson, Marty (Myoelectric Symposium, 1995)