PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic patterns of maxillofacial prosthetic treatment to identify the characteristics and geographic distribution of patients with maxillofacial prosthetics in the capital region of Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective analytical multicenter study was performed by chart reviews. This study included patients who visited t...

The loss of an upper limb significantly limits the functional activities of daily living. A huge emphasis is placed on the manipulation, shape, weight, and comfort of a prosthesis, to enable its use as an inherent body part. Even with technological advances, customized upper-extremity myoelectric prosthesis remain heavy and expensive. The high cost of upper-extremity prosthesis is an especially...

Brain-machine interfaces are being developed to assist paralyzed patients by enabling them to operate machines with recordings of their own neural activity. Recent studies show that motor parameters, such as hand trajectory, and cognitive parameters, such as the goal and predicted value of an action, can be decoded from the recorded activity to provide control signals. Neural prosthetics that u...

This letter addresses the following sentence in the “Mobility redux: PostWorld War II prosthetics and functional aids for veterans, 1945 to 2010” editorial that appeared in JRRD, Volume 48, Number 2. The sentence on page xv, second column: “Early testing and rigorous subject feedback clearly showed that DEKA II’s first active socket design was not what patients wanted or needed.” is not accurat...

The goal of this study was to gather the opinions of prosthetics experts on the most important factors for the successful use of upper-limb (UL) prostheses, compare them with those of prosthesis users, and ultimately direct research efforts in this field. UL prosthetics experts were asked to compare the importance of the comfort, function, and cosmesis of a prosthetic device for a transhumeral ...

There is an increasing awareness that the inclusion of quality of life as an outcome measure is important in ensuring a client-centred and holistic assessment. This review outlines the benefits of quality of life as an outcome measurement in the field of prosthetics. It introduces the key concepts and challenges in the definition and assessment of quality of life post-amputation, including the ...

INTRODUCTION Over the past ten years, the Prosthetics Clinical Services Department of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has treated thirty-six (36) persons with bilateral arm amputations. Of these, twenty-three had sustained high-level bilateral limb loss, High-level is defined as the absence of a functional physiological elbow joint In some cases the anatomical elbow is present, but the ...

PURPOSE Acquired nystagmus, a highly symptomatic consequence of damage to the substrates of oculomotor control, often is resistant to pharmacotherapy. Although heterogeneous in its neural cause, its expression is unified at the effector-the eye muscles themselves-where physical damping of the oscillation offers an alternative approach. Because direct surgical fixation would immobilize the globe...

I. LOWER-EXTREMITY PROSTHETICS A. Basic Studies Preformed Thermoplastic Above-Knee Sockets B. Development (Components) 1. SACH Foot Modificaion 2. VAPC Modular Foot C. Development (Techniques) Cosmetic Finishing for Skeletal Prostheses D. Evaluation (Components) 1. Blatchford Stabilized Knee (BSK) 2. Hosmer Pneumatic Swing Control Knee 3. Regnell Swing and Stance Mechanism 4. U.S. Manufacturing...