Mechanical design of dynamic hand orthoses: Expanding technology with comprehensive overviews and alternative pathways

Orthoses have evolved from simply maintaining bone fractures and correcting spinal deformities to full mechatronic systems that can read a person’s intention and translate that into a desired motion or force path. A vast variety in pathologies (e.g., stroke, muscular dystrophies), applications (e.g., daily assistance, research) and environments ...

User capacities and operation forces: Requirements for body-powered upper-limb prostheses

In the Netherlands approximately 3750 persons have an arm defect: they miss (part of) their hand, forearm or even their entire arm. The majority of these people are in the possession of a prosthesis. This prosthesis can be purely cosmetic, or offer the user some grasping function. The latter can either be a body-powered or a myo-electric...