A Taxonomy for Commercially Available Myoelectric Terminal Devices
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https://doi.org/10.57922/mec.2470Abstract
The number of myoelectric prostheses available commercially has grown rapidly in the past decade, displaying a range of design philosophies and capabilities. As a result, the terms “myoelectric prosthesis,” “bionic hand”, or “multifunction prosthesis” commonly used to describe such devices fail to account for these different prosthetic designs. Here, we propose a myoelectric prosthesis terminal device taxonomy, which aims to describe the full span of prosthetic designs. We then categorize commercially available myoelectric prosthetic terminal devices to identify the subset of categories most frequently represented in the market, thereby expanding the ability to perform cross-study comparison and meta-analysis of myoelectric prosthesis performance.
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2024-08-15
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E. Earley, C. Piazza, and K. Turner, “A Taxonomy for Commercially Available Myoelectric Terminal Devices”, MEC Symposium, Aug. 2024.
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Prosthetic Devices and Materials
