News tagged with prosthetic arm
The bionic arm is the future of prosthetics, and it's here today
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Alberta Health Services' Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital is pioneering a major advancement in upper-limb amputation surgery and rehabilitation with the Canadian debut of the Targeted Muscle Reinnervation ...
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Amputees can experience prosthetic hand as their own
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in inducing people with an amputated arm to experience a prosthetic rubber hand as belonging to their own body. The results can lead to the ...
New surgical technique shows promise for improving function of artificial arms
Feb 10, 2009 |
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A surgical technique known as targeted muscle reinnervation appears to enable patients with arm amputations to have improved control of functions with an artificial arm, according to a study in the February 11 issue of JAMA.
'Fluidhand': Each finger can be moved separately
Apr 22, 2008 |
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It can hold a credit card, use a keyboard with the index finger, and lift a bag weighing up to 20 kg – the world’s first commercially available pros-thetic hand that can move each finger separately and has ...
Thinking makes it so: Science extends reach of prosthetic arms
Nov 11, 2007 |
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Motorized prosthetic arms can help amputees regain some function, but these devices take time to learn to use and are limited in the number of movements they provide.
Rocket-powered mechanical arm could revolutionize prosthetics
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm.
Researcher trips amputees in effort to develop improved prosthetic legs
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Again and again, 71-year-old Marjorie Brasier walked on the treadmill using an instrumented prosthetic leg, and again and again she tripped or slipped. Sometimes she recovered on her own and kept walking, while at other ...
Keeping hands where you can see 'em alters perception, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Richard A. Abrams, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, have shown that to see objects better, you should take the matter into your ...
University of Utah to help build bionic arm
Apr 24, 2006 |
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University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthetic arm that would work, feel and look like a real arm. The Utah work is a key part of a U.S. Department of Defense ...
Reading the brain without poking it
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a ...
A vast right arm conspiracy? Study suggests handedness may effect body perception
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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There are areas in the brain devoted to our arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way these areas are distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps" and there are some significant differences in these ...
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