Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for the Upper and Lower Extremity.

ABSTRACT: Myoelectric devices are controlled by electromyographic signals generated by contraction of residual muscles, which thus serve as biological amplifiers of neural control signals. Although nerves severed by amputation continue to carry motor control information intended for the missing limb, loss of muscle effectors due to amputation prevents access to this important control information. Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) was developed as a novel strategy to improve control of myoelectric upper limb prostheses. Severed motor nerves are surgically transferred to the motor points of denervated target muscles, which, after reinnervation, contract in response to neural control signals for the missing limb. TMR creates additional control sites, eliminating the need to switch the prosthes

SUBMITTER: Kuiken TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5448419 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature