Making Hands: The Design and Use of Upper Extremity Prosthetics

Making Hands: The Design and Use of Upper Extremity Prosthetics provides a comprehensive, historical accounting on the development of upper extremity prostheses that includes a global scope. Different aspects surrounding the development of key aspects of prostheses, mechanisms, control, hands and elbows are described. The field is broad and requires knowledge from a disparate range of disciplines. In addition, sections cover necessary background to give researchers and professionals what they need to learn about adjacent fields. The author's expertise on body powered and externally powered prostheses makes this a very comprehensive resource on the topic. Covers research and technological innovation in the development of upper limb prosthesesIntroduces upper limb prosthetics from the different perspectives of biology, engineering, clinical practice and industryDiscusses innovations of the last decade, rapid manufacture, the 'citizen engineer', and how these things may shape prosthetics in the future INDICE: 1. Upper Limb Prosthetics 2. The Hand 3. Early History of Upper Limb Prostheses   4. Body Powered Prostheses 5. Externally Powered Prostheses 6. A Tale of Two Elbows 7. The Edinburgh arm and the i-Limb hand 8. Otto Bock 9. Canadian Upper Limb Prosthetics Research 10. Hands from Chicago 11. Prosthetics in Europe 12. New Era Prosthetics

• ISBN: 978-0-12-820544-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés