Abstract
The loss of a hand can significantly affect one’s work and social life. For many patients, an artificial limb can improve their mobility and ability to manage everyday activities, as well as provide the means to remain independent. This paper provides an extensive review of available biosensing methods to implement the control system for transradial prostheses based on the measured activity in remnant muscles. Covered techniques include electromyography, magnetomyography, electrical impedance tomography, capacitance sensing, near-infrared spectroscopy, sonomyography, optical myography, force myography, phonomyography, myokinetic control, and modern approaches to cineplasty. The paper also covers combinations of these approaches, which, in many cases, achieve better accuracy while mitigating the weaknesses of individual methods. The work is focused on the practical applicability of the approaches, and analyses present challenges associated with each technique along with their relationship with proprioceptive feedback, which is an important factor for intuitive control over the prosthetic device, especially for high dexterity prosthetic hands.
Highlights
Even though prosthetics as a field of medicine originated many centuries ago, it is still an area that is developing and largely dependent on the research of new technologies
It analyses their relationship with an important factor for intuitive control of prosthetic devices: proprioceptive feedback
This review focuses on the prevalent group of biosensing methods based on the measurement of the activity of residual muscles
Summary
Even though prosthetics as a field of medicine originated many centuries ago, it is still an area that is developing and largely dependent on the research of new technologies. In cases when the amputation is very proximal, the muscles of the amputated region are lost, complicating the application of biosensing techniques based on the monitoring of activity in the residual muscles Separate surgical operations such as Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR, Figure 1a) [1,2] and Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface [3,4,5] (RPNI, Figure 1b) may be performed to redirect and engraft the remaining nerves of the amputated limb to a new location of healthy muscles (or muscle grafts in case of RPNI), sometimes making it possible to measure the activity in these muscles. The topic of regenerative interfaces is broad, and its extensive presentation is beyond the scope of this article
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