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Moving a missing hand: children born with below elbow deficiency can enact hand grasp patterns with their residual muscles
Children with a unilateral congenital below elbow deficiency (UCBED) have one typical upper limb and one that lacks a hand, ending below the elbow at...
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Unintentional drifts in performance during one-hand and two-hand finger force production
We explored the phenomena of force drifts and unintentional finger force production (enslaving), and their dependence on visual feedback. Predictions...
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O hand, where art thou? Map** hand location across the visual field during common activities
Humans employ visually-guided actions during a myriad of daily activities. These ubiquitous but precise manual actions rely on synergistic work...
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Touch Hand 4.5: low-cost additive manufacturing prosthetic hand participated in Cybathlon 2020 ARM discipline
BackgroundThe Touch Hand 4.5 is a highly customisable prosthetic hand, which features an optimised modular design of the Touch Hand 4. The Touch Hand...
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The BE-UJI hand function activity set: a reduced set of activities for the evaluation of the healthy and pathological hand
BackgroundHand kinematics during hand function tests based on the performance of activities of daily living (ADLs) can provide objective data to...
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How to use one surface electromyography sensor to recognize six hand movements for a mechanical hand in real time: a method based on Morse code
AbstractSurface electromyography (sEMG) signal is a kind of physiological signal reflecting muscle activity and muscle force. At present, the...
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Proprioceptive acuity for landmarks on the hand and digits
Previous work using visually guided reaches to localize landmarks on a hidden hand has suggested that proprioceptive acuity for hand targets is low...
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Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task
The grating orientation discrimination task (GOT) is a sensitive and reliable measure of tactile spatial resolution, or acuity. We used the GOT in...
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Comparison of two alcohol hand rubbing techniques regarding hand surface coverage among hospital workers: a quasi-randomized controlled trial
BackgroundThe adapted 6-step without interlock (A6Sw/oI) hand rub technique, commonly practiced in Japan, adds the “wrist” but omits the “interlock”...
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Reliability and Validity of Hand-Held Dynamometer and Hand-Held Sphygmomanometer for Testing Shoulder Isometric External and Internal Rotator Muscles Strength
BackgroundShoulder strength evaluation is a recommended procedure in musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
AimTo examine hand-held sphygmomanometer (HHS)...
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World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024. SAVE LIVES: clean your hands campaign: promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to “bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of...
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Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene facilitate the implementation of the WHO hand hygiene multimodal improvement strategy in Japan: evidence for the role of local trainers, adaptation, and sustainability
Background“Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene” (TTT) is a standardized training to train infection prevention and control (IPC) practitioners with...
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The multi-grip and standard myoelectric hand prosthesis compared: does the multi-grip hand live up to its promise?
BackgroundMulti-grip myoelectric hand prostheses (MHPs), with five movable and jointed fingers, have been developed to increase functionality....
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Cold-induced vasodilation during sequential immersions of the hand
A common practice for those operating in cold environments includes repetitive glove doffing and donning to perform specific tasks, which creates a...
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Factors associated with hand washing effectiveness: an institution-based observational study
BackgroundFew studies have investigated how the effectiveness of hand washing in removing hand contaminants is influenced by the performance and...
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Hand Preference in Stuttering: Meta-Analyses
Reduced hemispheric asymmetries, as well as their behavioral manifestation in the form of atypical handedness (i.e., non-right, left-, or...
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Development of a hand prosthesis control system with tactile feedback
We present here a robotic man-machine system consisting of a bionic hand prosthesis and a force application module which supports the use of tactile...
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Chord skill: learning optimized hand postures and bimanual coordination
This reaction time study tested the hypothesis that in the case of finger movements skilled motor control involves the execution of learned hand...
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Identification and Classification of Myoelectric Signal Features Related to Hand Motions
Either a hand movement or a gesture appears to be worthy of study regarding industrial requirements for operators who have to accomplish multiple...
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Restoring natural upper limb movement through a wrist prosthetic module for partial hand amputees
BackgroundMost partial hand amputees experience limited wrist movement. The limited rotational wrist movement deteriorates natural upper limb system...
