Limb prosthetics-1970.

A list of everyday tasks for use in prosthesis design and development.

This report describes a pilot study made as a starting point for the functional specification of powered upper-limb prostheses. A list of tasks, intended to cover all the activities of normal adult daily life (excluding jobs or recreations), was compiled. They were scored by a small group of able-bodied subjects for importance in independent living, so that design analysis would be simplified b...

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...

Development of rehabilitation engineering over the years: as I see it.

The descriptive words “Rehabilitation Engineering” were not used widely, if at all, in America until the late 1960s and early 1970s, and then mostly by persons who had first been involved with prosthetics research and development immediately after World War II. Rehabilitation engineering in America owes its birth to the federal agencies that fostered its development after they had been so succe...

Practical problems in myoelectric control of prostheses.

Endoskeletal structures for lower-extremity prostheses.