{"id":5665,"date":"2013-12-30T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fescenter.org\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:08:14","slug":"prosthetic-hand-with-sense-of-touch-in-development-at-case-and-cleveland-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/2013\/12\/30\/prosthetic-hand-with-sense-of-touch-in-development-at-case-and-cleveland-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetic Hand With Sense of Touch in Development at Case and Cleveland VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&#8211; Plucking the stem off a fat, juicy cherry may seem like a simple task, but it\u2019s practically Herculean for an artificial hand\u2014that\u2019s because the prosthetic limbs,while much more dexterous and sophisticated than ever before, still can\u2019t feel the cherry. The end result is a lot of squished fruit.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center are working on a potential solution: an artificial hand that provides sensory feedback to its wearer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be a while before the model is ready for in-home patient use, but in early lab tests, the results are dramatic\u2014cherry destruction dropped from about 60 percent without the feedback, to only 7 percent with feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring a sense of touch to amputees is key to making a more naturally functioning prosthetic limb, said the project\u2019s director, Dustin Tyler, who has joint appointments at Case and the VA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/healthfit\/index.ssf\/2013\/12\/prosthetic_hand_with_sense_of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&#8211; Plucking the stem off a fat, juicy cherry may seem like a simple task, but it\u2019s practically Herculean for an artificial hand\u2014that\u2019s because the prosthetic limbs,while much more dexterous and sophisticated than ever before, still can\u2019t feel the cherry. The end result is a lot of squished fruit. But researchers at Case Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fes","category-people","category-prosthetics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28338,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/28338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}