System and method for improving the functionality of prostheses
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Feb 15, 2007
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Aug 11, 2006
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Aug 11, 2005
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A system and method for improving the functionality of a prosthesis used by an amputee in which a portion of the user's skin is reinnervated with nerves that formerly provided sensory feedback from the lost limb, providing a haptic indication from the prosthesis, and providing a corresponding haptic effect at the surface of the reinnervated skin. The reinnvervated skin provides transfer sensation that supplies the user with the psychological reassurance of sensing touch in the prosthesis while helping to meet the practical needs of enabling goal confirmation and the application and sensing of graded pressure in the prosthesis.
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