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Ingeniería e Investigación
versión impresa ISSN 0120-5609
Resumen
SANCHEZ R., Claudia Marcela; LOAIZA B., Jair Leopoldo y CORTES R., Carlos Julio. Designing and constructing prototype hand and forearm models (pronation and supination) for myoelectric hand prostheses. Ing. Investig. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.3, pp.5-11. ISSN 0120-5609.
Rehabilitation Engineerings work consists of developing products associated with physical rehabilitation, mainly prostheses for upper and lower extremity amputees. Developing such products implies mechanical design and the suitable selection of materials and manufacturing process to replace some of the functions which a patient may have lost. The work presented here was aimed at establishing an optimal solution for substituting the needs of a patient having had the forearm amputated at the proximal level of the elbow. This article describes the whole process followed, from understanding the medical language to developing a functional prototype able to replace the arms two functions (i.e. the hand and forearms pronation and supination movements).
Palabras clave : myoelectric hand prostheses; pronation; supination; mechanical design.