ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2022
A multiarticulate pediatric prosthetic hand for clinical and research applications.
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- The most common bone tumors of the upper extremity in childhood and adolescence and their treatment: a review of the current literature.EFORT open reviews · 2026Review
- Development of a Low-Cost Mechanical Hand Prosthesis with Varied Grasp Positions.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- A performance evaluation of commercially available and 3D-printable prosthetic hands: a comparison using the anthropomorphic hand assessment protocol.BMC biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Understanding the capacity of children with congenital unilateral below-elbow deficiency to actuate their affected muscles.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although beginning to emerge, multiarticulate upper limb prostheses for children remain sparse despite the continued advancement of mechatronic technologies that have benefited adults with upper limb amputations. Upper limb prosthesis research is primarily focused on adults, even though rates of pediatric prosthetic abandonment far surpass those seen in adults. The implicit goal of a prosthesis is to provide effective functionality while promoting healthy social interaction. Yet most current pediatric devices offer a single degree of freedom open/close grasping function, a stark departure from the multiple grasp configurations provided in advanced adult devices. Although comparable child-sized devices are on the clinical horizon, understanding how to effectively translate these technologies to the pediatric population is vital. This includes exploring grasping movements that may provide the most functional benefits and techniques to control the newly available dexterity. Currently, no dexterous pediatric research platforms exist that offer open access to hardware and programming to facilitate the investigation and provision of multi-grasp function. Our objective was to deliver a child-sized multi-grasp prosthesis that may serve as a robust research platform. In anticipation of an open-source release, we performed a comprehensive set of benchtop and functional tests with common household objects to quantify the performance of our device. This work discusses and evaluates our pediatric-sized multiarticulate prosthetic hand that provides 6 degrees of actuation, weighs 177 g and was designed specifically for ease of implementation in a research or clinical-research setting. Through the benchtop and validated functional tests, the pediatric hand produced grasping forces ranging from 0.424-7.216 N and was found to be comparable to the functional capabilities of similar adult devices. As mechatronic technologies advance and multiarticulate prostheses continue to evolve, translating many of these emerging technologies may help provide children with more useful and functional prosthesis options. Effective translation will inevitably require a solid scientific foundation to inform how best to prescribe advanced prosthetic devices and control systems for children. This work begins addressing these current gaps by providing a much-needed research platform with supporting data to facilitate its use in laboratory and clinical research settings.
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