The DLR Prosthetics Laboratory
Upper-limb prosthetic research is the typical multi-disciplinary research field – we must involve physicians, material scientists, mechatronic engineers, mathematicians and rehabilitation experts. A tight cooperation is laso necessary among the key players outside academia: manufacturers of prosthetic hardware and bio-compatible liners, orthopaedic and rehabilitation facilities. Most importantly, patients need to be involved since the beginning, as soon as possible after the trauma, and they must be followed for weeks and months during the rehabilitation process. The Prosthetics Laboratory of the DLR, Adaptive Bio-Interfaces Group, provides a research environment in which all aspects of the problem can be tackled, solutions devised, and systems tested to various degrees of “reality” – in the very end, upper-limb prosthetics research must leave the laboratory and be tested by the patients in real life: at home, outside, at work, in social life.
The team: Claudio Castellini, Markus Nowak, Mathilde Connan
The DLR Prosthetics Laboratory
The DLR Prosthetics Laboratory
Upper-limb prosthetic research is the typical multi-disciplinary research field – we must involve physicians, material scientists, mechatronic engineers, mathematicians and rehabilitation experts. A tight cooperation is laso necessary among the key players outside academia: manufacturers of prosthetic hardware and bio-compatible liners, orthopaedic and rehabilitation facilities. Most importantly, patients need to be involved since the beginning, as soon as possible after the trauma, and they must be followed for weeks and months during the rehabilitation process. The Prosthetics Laboratory of the DLR, Adaptive Bio-Interfaces Group, provides a research environment in which all aspects of the problem can be tackled, solutions devised, and systems tested to various degrees of “reality” – in the very end, upper-limb prosthetics research must leave the laboratory and be tested by the patients in real life: at home, outside, at work, in social life.
The team: Claudio Castellini, Markus Nowak, Mathilde Connan
Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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