although acrometastases are rare but clinically they are considered important. their etiology is quite different from the metastases to other sites; bronchogenic carcinoma is by far the most frequent case. the prognosis is always similar to metastatic bronchial cancer with an average survival of three months. treatment may involve distal digital amputation or antalgic radiotherapy. the main dif...

Around the world, there are thousands of people who lost a hand during war or as a consequence of an accident. Artificial hand prosthesis controlled by surface electromyography (EMG) signals offers a promising solution to improve the quality of life of amputees. As part of the process of prosthesis fitting, an occupational therapist will try to train the amputee with the help of a physical pros...

Due to the ageing population and an increasing number of stroke patients, we see potential future rehabilitation in telerehabilitation, which might alleviate workload physiotherapists occupational therapists. In order enable use devices aimed for home independent need be developed. This paper describes design a robotic device post-stroke wrist finger evaluates movement it can perform. Six healt...

During the last decade, soft robotic systems, such as actuators and grippers, have been employed in various commercial applications. Due to need integrate mechanisms into devices operating alongside humans, systems concentrate increased scientific interest tasks with intense human–robot interaction, especially for human-exoskeleton Human exoskeletons are usually utilized assistance rehabilitati...

This study proposes a novel robotic hand that can achieve self-adaptive grasping and large payload (over 20 kg) with single actuator. Accordingly, two mechanisms, an actuation system self-motion switching finger self-locking mechanism, are installed in 1-degree-of-freedom hand. The switches the output motion from translational to rotational according applied external load. is bent by inserting ...