How to choose prosthesis for amputee

MEDI-REHATEK received a lot of inquiries from patients and found out that many patients had unclear choice of artificial limb assembly.They can not correctly determine what prosthesis they will assembly. Here,MEDI-REHATEK will give you about the classification of prosthesis.

Classification of the upper limb prosthesis:

Upper limb prosthesis is divided into cosmetic hand from the structure: it mainly plays a cosmetic effect with limited function. 

Tool hand: it is mainly easy to work. 

Functional prosthetic hand: beautiful features with good function. 

EMG prosthetic hand: the structure is more complex with the bio-electric power, that is mainly applied to patients with forearm amputation currently. 

Patients can choose the type of installation according to their own needs, but the better the compensation function of the prosthesis is, the more expensive the price is, so patients need to consider carefully.

Upper limb prosthesis from the amputation site can be divided into prosthetic fingers, wrist articulation prosthesis, forearm prosthesis, elbow articulation prosthesis, upper arm prosthesis, shoulder articulation prosthesis and so on. 

For patients with fingers amputation, the current assembly of a functional prosthesis is unlikely, so the finger prosthesis is basically cosmetic fingers, but the price of the mechanical fingers from foreign research and development costs about 500 thousand dollars, there is no such technology in China right now. 

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