Thursday, February 9, 2017

Advantages and disadvantages of intelligent lower limb prostheses

The development of artificial limbs has always followed the three main principles, namely "security, functionality, practicality." Safety is a good understanding,prosthesis needs to ensure the safety of the product itself.

The prosthesis provides a certain degree of security when users are in the process of use in order to avoid the injury to the user caused by product failure; 

functionality refers to the materials and assistive device as compensatory features to the physiological function of the defect site so that the user can achieve living a life as close as possible to the normal state of life; 

practicality consideration is whether assembly of  artificial limbs causes any additional burden for users,which includes the physiological burden,psychological Burden, economic burden.



Currently Medi-Rehatek intelligent lower limb prosthesis develops very fast in the international development,the actual number of users substantially increase each year, because itachieves a relative balance among "security, functionality, practicality". 

The intelligent prosthesis provides protection at abnormal state of support phaseandautomatic gait analysis and control at sway phase,so that prosthetic users have a closer to the normal state of life. It can be said that the intelligent lower limb prosthetic system is an important milestone in the development of modern prosthetic technology.




But we should also clearly understand that, due to the high cost of intelligent prosthetic limbs, its corresponding use cost is also much higher than other types of prostheses.it is not suitable for a wide range of promotion and use. However, in recent years, China's development of intelligent prostheses is also very serious.

The key project of "Eleventh Five-Year" National Science and Technology Support Programof "Aids to the Disabled Aids Research" has the establishment of the intellectual limb prosthesis research topic.Its goal is to promote intellectual Intelligent prosthetic knee joint so that knee amputees can use lower limb prostheses with lower price isand excellent performance


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