Zlotolow Dan A, Kozin Scott H
Shriners Hospital for Children, Temple University School of Medicine, 3551 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
Hand Clin. 2012 Nov;28(4):587-93. doi: 10.1016/j.hcl.2012.08.014.
Until recently, upper extremity prostheses had changed little since World War II. In 2006, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency responded to an increasing number of military amputees with the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program. The program has yielded several breakthroughs both in the engineering of new prosthetic arms and in the control of those arms. Direct brain-wave control of a limb with 22° of freedom may be within reach. In the meantime, advances such as individually powered digits have opened the door to multifunctional full and partial hand prostheses. Restoring sensation to the prosthetic limb remains a major challenge to full integration of the limb into a patient's self-image.
直到最近，自第二次世界大战以来上肢假肢变化甚微。2006年，美国国防高级研究计划局针对越来越多的军事截肢者启动了“革新假肢”项目。该项目在新型假肢的工程设计以及这些假肢的控制方面均取得了多项突破。对具有22个自由度的肢体进行直接脑电波控制或许指日可待。与此同时，诸如独立供电手指等进展为多功能全手和部分手部假肢打开了大门。恢复假肢肢体的感觉仍然是使该肢体完全融入患者自我形象的一项重大挑战。
