Experience With Electric Prostheses for the Partial Hand Presentation: An Eight-Year Retrospective

Abstract

In Brief This article provides a review of progressive partial hand prosthetic management as presented at the University of New Brunswick Myoelectric Controls Symposium in August 2008. This unique patient population allows an opportunity for further research and testing of upper limb principles, both historic and new. The prosthetic field is at the beginning of a paradigm shift of our current thinking as it relates to the treatment of individuals with partial hand limb differences. The prosthetic field is at the beginning of a paradigm shift of our current thinking as it relates to the treatment of individuals with partial hand limb differences. This paper provides a review of progressive partial hand prosthetic management as presented at the University of New Brunswick Myoelectric Controls Symposium in August 2008. This unique patient population allows an opportunity for further research and testing of upper limb principles, both historic and new.