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Partial hand and transradial amputations are among the most common levels of amputation. In the former case, a mechanical prosthesis is prescribed, while in the latter case either a mechanical or a myoelectric one are used depending on the patient’s preference and access to the technology. While a variety of prostheses designs are aimed to transradial amputees and plenty others are for partial hand amputations, like the 3D-printed open-source concepts that are activated by the user’s wrist, for a faster and more efficient treatment of hand amputations, one design should be adaptive for different levels of amputation without compromising the prosthesis performance. This work describes a powered prosthesis design with modular fingers and space constraints that allow it to be adapted to different levels of amputation. The prosthesis finger lengths could also be customized to user-specific anthropometry and, besides shafts, bolted connections and electronic components, the whole hand can be 3D printed.
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This work was supported by the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation (CONCYTEC), for a Basic and Applied Research Grant, with grant number 160-2015.
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Mio, R., Bustamante, M., Salazar, G., Elias, D.A. (2019). A 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand with Modular Reconfigurable Fingers. In: Kecskeméthy, A., Geu Flores, F., Carrera, E., Elias, D. (eds) Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 71. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16423-2_9
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