Advances in Arm Prosthetics

A recent survey of prosthetics practice in the U.S. revealed that upper-limb prosthetics represents a mere 5% of the work performed by the typical U.S. prosthetist. Knowing that research efforts (and dollars) will tend to be spent in a similar proportion, arm amputees might well be discouraged that their needs could be overlooked in favor of the needs of larger disabled populations. Especially when we consider that the loss of an arm to these amputees is no less traumatic, and their rehabilitation no less important, than the lower limb amputee’s.