Touch on predefined areas on the forearm can be associated with specific fingers: Towards a new principle for sensory feedback in hand prostheses

• Main Authors: Ulrika Wijk (Author), Pamela Svensson (Author), Christian Antfolk (Author), Ingela K. Carlsson (Author), Anders Björkman (Author), Birgitta Rosén (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medical Journals Sweden, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Objective: Currently available hand prostheses lack sensory feedback. A "phantom hand map", a referred sensation, on the skin of the residual arm is a possible target to provide amputees with non-invasive somatotopically matched sensory feedback. How-ever, not all amputees experience a pha...