Responses - prosthetic hand
Mohammad Reza Mirheydari
Description
Collection
Title:
Responses - prosthetic hand
Creator:
Mohammad Reza Mirheydari
Date:
5/23/2007
Text:
Great thanks to Jonathan who responded in this case .
Original question :
Dear list > I have a below elbow amputee that wants to change car gear with his prosthetic hand , I need to know that a prosthesis with cosmatic inner hand ( with built in steel wires ) suffices for this work or I should apply a functional passive hand ( that has springs ) ?
Answers :
I'm a right BE amputee and I drive a stick. It's actually harder to deal with the button on an automatic. I use a hosmer 5x, but you need a rotating wrist to make sure you can get an angle that works (I turn it so the hook is upside down and curved to the left). I've had success also with a myo ETD (upside down, too) and a Bock speed hand, but I've not tried a mechanical hand. The speed hand works as long as you don't grab too tightly, in which case you can't move the shifter because of the angle that the hand is locked to the shifter. The ETD is the same way. The TRS rubber hands work ok, but the TRS prehensor doesn't work too well for this. My guess is that a cosmetic hand wouldn't work so well, but I've never had one.
Jonathan Kuniholm
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Original question :
Dear list > I have a below elbow amputee that wants to change car gear with his prosthetic hand , I need to know that a prosthesis with cosmatic inner hand ( with built in steel wires ) suffices for this work or I should apply a functional passive hand ( that has springs ) ?
Answers :
I'm a right BE amputee and I drive a stick. It's actually harder to deal with the button on an automatic. I use a hosmer 5x, but you need a rotating wrist to make sure you can get an angle that works (I turn it so the hook is upside down and curved to the left). I've had success also with a myo ETD (upside down, too) and a Bock speed hand, but I've not tried a mechanical hand. The speed hand works as long as you don't grab too tightly, in which case you can't move the shifter because of the angle that the hand is locked to the shifter. The ETD is the same way. The TRS rubber hands work ok, but the TRS prehensor doesn't work too well for this. My guess is that a cosmetic hand wouldn't work so well, but I've never had one.
Jonathan Kuniholm
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Citation
Mohammad Reza Mirheydari, “Responses - prosthetic hand,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/228256.
