Designing and testing lightweight shoulder prostheses with hybrid actuators for movements involved in typical activities of daily living and impact absorption
Masashi Sekine,1,2 Kahori Kita,1 Wenwei Yu1 1Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, 2Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan Abstract: Unlike forearm amputees, transhumeral amputees have residual stumps that are too small to provide a sufficient range of operation for their...
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Dove Medical Press
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Medical Devices : Evidence and Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.dovepress.com/designing-and-testing-lightweight-shoulder-prostheses-with-hybrid-actu-peer-reviewed-article-MDER |