DEVELOPMENT OF EXTERNALLY POWERED UPPER EXTREMITY ORTHOTIC SYSTEMS

Development of Externally Powered Upper Extremity Orthotic Systems.

In recent years an increasing number of patients are surviving with extensive paralysis which includes the loss of hand and arm movements in both upper extremities. This disability occurs in patients with cord lesions from the fourth to the sixth cervical vertebrae who have survived with tetraplegia, as well as in patients with severe paralysis from poliomyelitis, with central nervous system de...

Future Developments in Externally Powered Orthotic and Prosthetic Devices.

Current indications for upper-extremity powered components.

Development and evaluation of externally powered upper-limb prosthesis. Summary of research project activities July 1, 1959--December 31, 1959.

This progress report covers the engineering design and development of basic components for the servo-controlled external power unit for upper-limb prostheses. The overall objective of this Veterans Administration sponsored research is to develop and evaluate a servo-controlled external power unit which could be used to move any single articulation or any two articulations of a conventional uppe...

Clinical evaluation of externally powered prosthetic elbows.

1 Staff Engineer, Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development, National Research Council—National Academy of Sciences. This paper is a revision of Report E-4, which was prepared on behalf of the Subcommittee on Evaluation, CPRD. The study was supported by Contract SRS-71-8 between the Social and Rehabilitation Service and the National Academy of Sciences. During the past few years, severa...