An open-access case study, published January 3 in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, addressed the prosthetic needs of a forensic pathologist who has a unilateral transradial amputation. The case study participant and first author, Wolf Schweitzer, MD, noted that forensic medicine is a physically demanding work environment even for people without disabilities; therefore, a prosthesis user requires “sufficiently precise workplace specifications and sufficiently hard testing of prosthetic devices.” The results of the five-year study indicate that the body-powered prosthesis offered better grip reliability, grip force regulation, grip performance, center of balance, component wear down, sweat/temperature independence, and skin state than a myoelectric hand.
