IEEE Rev Biomed Eng
October 2017
Partial hand amputation is perhaps the most frequent amputation level, worldwide. Although its annual incidence in western countries is roughly 1:18 000 inhabitants, the treatments of partial hand amputations have modestly progressed so far. We have identified three main limitation factors to this progress: 1) the wide range of anatomical and functional presentations, which makes difficult to find standardized and scalable solutions; 2) the technological complexity in replacing the motor and sensory function of a lost digit in the size of a digit; and 3) the fact that a partial hand can be functionally successful mostly when it restores a lost opposition movement, i.
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