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Strategies to Control Robotic Hand Prosthesis Via HD-sEMG and to Restore Sensory Feedback Via TENS
NCT06486571 · Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro · Updated 3 July 2024
- What is being tested
- Electromyography recording with HD-sEMG; Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
- For
- Upper Limb Amputees
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years to 65 years. About 30 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Italy
- When
- Starts or started 23 April 2024, ends 22 April 2026. Registered 3 July 2024.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Upper limb amputation still causes severe disability today; prostheses currently on the market are able to restore partially to the amputee the lost functionality. In addition to the motor capacity of the limb, prosthetic systems should also aim to restore to the sensory information from the surrounding environment during contact with objects. Therefore, it is important to develop bidirectional prostheses. It is thus apparent that the development of new techniques for decoding the efferent channel, such as high-density surface electromyography, and for encoding of the afferent channel afferent, to return multimodal somatosensory sensations of mechanoception, nociception, and thermoception using TENS, isimportant to improve the patient's use of the prosthesis.
Sites
- Centro Protesi InailBudrio, BO, Italy