1 Based upon the report of the Panel on Surgical and Medical Considerations of a Conference on Prosthetics and Orthotics held, under the auspices of the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., December 12-13, 1966. Funds to support the conference were supplied by the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, Department of Health,...

Based on some mathematical and statistical approaches, our study leads to some conclusions concerning the procedures related to the orodental prosthetics. Occlusal equilibration in orodental prosthetics is a major issue because besides motivating patients for a regular daily oral hygiene, it could significantly increase the longevity of FPR. More dental hygiene information should be given after...

THE history of the upper-extremity prosthetics program up to 1954 has been outlined in a previous article in this journal (7). From 1950 to the present, the upper-extremity research group established in the Department of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, has processed some 300 arm amputees: 72 during the Case Study Program (3), an overlapping 250 during the 12 schools at the...

The National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) is the national Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dataset that records characteristics of individual prosthetic and assistive devices. It remains unknown how well NPPD records can be matched to encounter records for the same individuals in major VA utilization databases. We compared the count of prosthetics records in the NPPD with the count of...

The need to measure and evaluate orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) practice has received growing recognition in the past several years. Reliable and valid self-report instruments are needed that can help facilities evaluate patient outcomes. The objective of this project was to develop a set of self-report instruments that assess functional status, quality of life, and satisfaction with devices a...

There is a drastic increment of the demand for prosthetic devices over the last few decades. This is caused by the increased amputees because of casualties due to civil wars, injuries due to accidents, etc. Therefore, the robotic prostheses are one of the highly interested research areas in recent robotic research. The target is to make sure the amputee gets a better chance to interact with the...