A New Grip: Bionic Hand Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe living with a myoelectric bionic hand. Writers describe before the fitting — the amputation or the congenital limb difference, the body-powered hook or the cosmetic hand that came first, the funding process, and the expectations set by marketing. There is learning to fire a muscle on purpose: the electrodes, the co-contraction, the pattern recognition training, the exhaustion of concentrating on a grip. Writers describe the weight of an ordinary day: the socket, the sweat, the skin breakdown, the battery, the rain, the repairs that take weeks, and the things the hand does brilliantly against the things a hook or a bare stump does better. Later chapters cover children's fittings, 3D-printed and open-source options, targeted muscle reinnervation and osseointegration, prosthetists' perspectives, the cupboard, and the people who kept going.

Who it's for

For new and prospective prosthesis users, families and clinicians weighing myoelectric against body-powered options, and readers curious what the technology really delivers.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 297 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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