Sentences with phrase «prosthesis with»

The technicians work with dentists and develop prosthesis with the help of molds prepared from patient's mouth.

With retention of the limb through pre-planned amputation, the patient is able to control their prosthesis with ease.

They could then use the rerouted nerve signals to control a robotic limb, allowing a person to control their prosthesis with the same nerves they originally used to control their real limb.

Controlling a prosthesis with thought is a big step in that direction, which is why our research team initiated this study.

«Controlling a prosthesis with your brain.»

When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.

So the development of a system that integrates the movement of the prosthesis with the movement of the user is «substantially more important with a robotic leg,» according to the authors.

One example, developed in collaboration with Professor Gill Pratt of Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts, is a leg prosthesis with a computer - controlled knee.

Studies have shown that users equipped with the lower - limb prostheses with powered knee and heel joints naturally walk faster with decreased hip effort while expending less energy than when they are using passive prostheses.

Attempts to control prostheses with electrical sensors on the skin have not had much success, mainly because it is difficult to distinguish among the many electrical changes that activate muscles.

Not exact matches

Handler went on to become a serial entrepreneur, starting a line of post-mastectomy prostheses after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Nurtured by mother cow I have no idea how a clunky knee can stop your breath in pure pain, unstring you as with a nerve - chop, millions have jumped at prostheses: a week, and they hip - hop delightedly.

Estimates on the energy return from a racing prosthesis top out at 98 %, compared with 141 % to 241 % from a foot and ankle powered by muscle and tissue.

Even more notably, with its sponsors and broad fan following, the league has so transformed public attitudes that many disabled Cambodians, athletic and not, now wear shorts to show off their prostheses.

Therefore, replacing a lost limb with a robotic prosthesis is the subject of much research, yet successful outcomes are rare.

Patients with hearing loss and balance dysfunction are currently fitted with auditory prostheses and may be given balance rehabilitation therapy, but the outcomes are variable.

«The prosthesis... allows me to hold things and overcome small challenges that would otherwise be very hard with just one hand.

The prosthesis proposed by John Pezaris, an assistant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston — at least as it's envisioned at this early stage — would be worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras over a person's eyes that connect to an array of electrodes implanted in the brain.

Once a runner on blades accelerates to top speed, one potential advantage lies in the ability to move the prostheses faster and with less effort — because the blades weigh less than a competitor's lower legs and feet.

«It's difficult to say at the moment,» says Diane Lazard, «but the idea is also to be able to spot in advance the people who will have a propensity for the written stimulus and to offer them active means for remaining with orality, particularly with auditory prostheses and speech therapy used much earlier than is currently practised.»

In March Grabowski, Kram and research associate Paolo Taboga reported in The Journal of Experimental Biologythat athletes with a left leg prosthesis are at a disadvantage in track events of 200 meters or more.

Grabowski and her colleagues found that Rehm and other world - class long jumpers with a below - the - knee amputation use a fundamentally different technique than competitors who do not need a prosthesis.

Corneal damage is currently treated by implanting corneas from human donors — which are in short supply — or with an unsightly prosthesis resembling a pinhole camera.

«I didn't realise it was possible,» says Dennis Aabo Sørensen, who is so far the only person to have been fitted with the new prosthesis.

Early interpretation of grip planning, including accounting for the distinctive form that plans take in the context of different object, could allow a brain computer interface decoder to get a motion command to a prosthesis more quickly and accurately with information about what is to be gripped, Vargas - Irwin said.

«With my existing prosthesis I always have to look at what I'm doing with it,» says SørenWith my existing prosthesis I always have to look at what I'm doing with it,» says Sørenwith it,» says Sørensen.

The second corresponds to a removable prosthesis, maintaining a mechanical connection with the bone and an electrical connection with the implanted electrodes.

For more than 600 years, patients with amputations above the knee received a prosthesis that fit over the skin and soft tissue of the amputation stump.

«Study finds minimal risk for serious infection with «in bone» prosthesis.»

New research examines exactly what happens when these technologies fail, with the goal of developing a new generation of more robust powered prostheses.

They have built - in springs that allow the ankle to rebound after a step, but with no more energy than the wearer applied to the prosthesis.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

With an electric motor, five internal microprocessors, and a quarter - size inertial measurement unit that tracks and adjusts its location in space, the PowerFoot One is a giant leap over existing prostheses.

When Dr. Deland told him about the new implant, which was approved by the FDA in 2012, Mr. Sander opted for ankle replacement surgery with the new prosthesis.

Although the actual fang dentures weren't found at the site, Chatters suspects such a prosthesis is the most likely explanation for the procedure, given the high frequency of humans with jaguar teeth in iconography of the Olmec, Mayan, and Aztecan cultures and the prevalence of such dentures in the region about 2,000 years later.

Modern prostheses can provide amputees with a wide variety of motor functions, but they can not give patients back their sense of touch.

Chang — co-director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, a UC Berkeley - UC San Francisco collaboration — is both a brain surgeon and a neuroscientist familiar with the field's deep computational frontiers.

But the fit is poor, with less than 40 per cent of the prosthesis in contact with the bone, and the force surgeons use sometimes causes the femur to fracture.

University of Washington researcher Emanuel Todorov, who developed the hand pictured here with Zhe Xu of Yale University, says that using 3 - D - printed plastic parts minimizes the possibility of rejection — a common problem with hand transplants — while cutting costs to a fraction of those associated with similar articulated prostheses.

The cumulative incidence of mitral valve reoperation at 15 years was significantly lower in the mechanical prosthesis group (5.0 percent) compared with the bioprosthesis group (11.1 percent).

That may seem like an odd question as the agency's reputation is burnished today by breathless reportage of the applications of its technologies, with driverless cars, robot challenges, advanced prostheses and even neuroscience applications that seem tailor - made to meet civilian preoccupations.

Today's prosthesis users have to rely on visual cues to know whether they are touching or gripping something with their artificial hands.

The scans were then analysed with a computer program called Orthodoc which allowed Bargar to choose the correct size and position for the hip prosthesis.

She tried a lighter prosthesis stuck on with glue, but it fell off the first time she used it.

The cumulative incidence of stroke at l5 years after mitral valve replacement was significantly higher in the mechanical prosthesis group (14.0 percent) compared with the bioprosthesis group (6.8 percent), as was the cumulative incidence of bleeding events (14.9 percent vs. 9.0 percent).

«Our data strongly suggest that the incremental risks of stroke and bleeding associated with mechanical prosthetic valve replacement should also be a major consideration in any discussion of prosthesis choice.»

A knee ravaged by arthritis was replaced with a titanium prosthesis.

Fifteen - year survival was 60.6 percent in the bioprosthesis group compared with 62.1 percent in the mechanical prosthesis group.

«The ultimate goal of this research is to provide the individual with a prosthesis that more easily and more successfully meets his or her needs for movement and walking,» Dr. Murphy notes of the study.

Bioprostheses were associated with a significantly higher rate of aortic valve reoperation than mechanical prostheses: the cumulative incidence of aortic valve reoperation at 15 years was 12.1 percent in the bioprosthesis group and 6.9 percent in the mechanical prosthesis group.