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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2022 Objective: To evaluate the effect of multi-grip myoelectric prosthetic hands on performance of daily activities, pain-related disability and prosthesis use, in comparison with single-grip myoelectric prosthetic hands.
Cathrine Widehammar +4 more
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Upper limbs orthesis and prostheses printed in 3D: an integrative review
Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional, 2021 Introduction: Three-dimensional (3D) printing is capable of making advanced and specialized physical products using computerized technologies and specific software.
Sandra Yoshie Uraga Morimoto +7 more
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IEEE Access, 2022 The most widely-used active upper-limb (UL) prostheses worldwide are body-powered (BP), which is a two-century-old technology. Despite their affordability and functional benefits to users, these devices are prone to poor outcomes for many patients ...
Vikranth H. Nagaraja +5 more
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Gesture recognition for transhumeral prosthesis control using EMG and NIR
IET Cyber-systems and Robotics, 2020 A key challenge associated with myoelectric prosthesis limbs is the acquisition of a good quality gesture intent signal from the residual anatomy of an amputee.
Ejay Nsugbe +3 more
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Isometric hip muscle strength in posttraumatic below-knee amputees [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2007 Background/Aim. Traumas and war injuries, next to chronic occlusive artery disease and diabetes mellitus-derived complications, are the most frequent cause of the lower limbs amputation.
Jandrić Slavica
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Design method for a bionic wrist based on tensegrity structures
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2020 The traditional bionic upper limb structure design is limited by the motion pair and cannot guarantee the flexibility of the mechanical structure. The tensegrity structure has the characteristics of high deformability, strong self-adaptability, and ...
Jianwei Sun, Xuemin Cao, Guangsheng Song
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Reactive Reinforcement Learning in Asynchronous Environments
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 The relationship between a reinforcement learning (RL) agent and an asynchronous environment is often ignored. Frequently used models of the interaction between an agent and its environment, such as Markov Decision Processes (MDP) or Semi-Markov Decision
Jaden B. Travnik +6 more
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Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, 2022 Introduction: Amputation is a painful functional experience and optimal rehabilitation of an amputee is a team effort. Functional restitution depends on many factors including the type of prosthesis available.
Maheshwar Lakkireddy +6 more
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IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023 After above-knee amputation, the missing biological knee and ankle are commonly replaced with a passive prosthesis, which cannot provide net-positive energy to assist the user.
Grace R. Hunt +3 more
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Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2019 Background Prosthetic hands with a myoelectric interface have recently received interest within the broader category of hand prostheses, but their high cost is a major barrier to use.
Inhoe Ku +4 more
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