VA Prosthetics Center research, development, and evaluation program.

The VA Prosthetics Center Research and Development effort is organized along a time axis based on when clinically useful results from each project are expected . Each Project, supervised by a manager, may conduct research, development, and evaluation in prosthetics, orthotics or other areas. In one Project, Advanced Systems, for example, where results are not expected to reach clinical practice for several years, the scope of work includes lower-limb prosthetics, upper-limb orthotics, and spinal-cord-injury devices. This paper has been organized to match the order of workshops scheduled for this Conference. Our work is described below in the following sequence : A. Lower-Limb Prosthetics, B . Upper-Limb Prosthetics, C. Orthotics, and D. Spinal Cord Injury.