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Technology has become a crucial component to every industry as well as in our personal lives. It has not only endorsed society with the ability to communicate with others via email, instant messaging, video/skype or voice but has also transformed the healthcare system. These changes are responsible for improving and saving countless lives around the world. The innovations stem from better diagnosis, surgical procedures and enhanced patient care. They range from small innovations from ankle braces to gargantuan advances such as artificial organs and robotic prosthetic limbs. Touch Bionics is a provider of prosthetic technologies and is a dominant manufacturer of upper limb prosthetic solutions they design their products to assure patients and …show more content…

(Whelan & Wagner, 2011)
With that being said, Touch Bionics focuses on patient fittings and customized prosthetic devices. Whether you are an amputee, an experienced user of prosthetics or someone who has been missing a limb since birth, Touch Bionics acknowledges that it can be a challenge to try and figure out all of the options that might be available to you. Touch Bionics holds a competitive advantage amongst its competitors by understanding the needs of their patients with upper limb loss and deficiency. Touch Bionics provides those individuals with support by training them and undergoing a full range of clinical services. In this literature you will learn about the company and what makes them a world leading manufacturer in their market.
To begin with, Touch Bionics history traces back to 1963, where comprehensive research was developed for children who were affected by Thalidomide- a drug that was supposed to help combat morning sickness for pregnant women but had side effects which caused birth malformations. In the 1990s, David Gow a Bioengineer developed a partial hand system along with an electrically powered shoulder. In the 2000s, the company known as Touch …show more content…

Modularity also means the ease of replacements of damaged or worn out parts. Besides the mechanical components, the new product line of aesthetic restoration solutions has facilitated the resemblance of human skin while maintaining the average weight of a normal arm. The high definition of the silicone mimics the three dermal layers of natural human skin. The prosthesis is matched to the individual’s skin depicting a realistic and functional epidermis.
According to the Journal of Neuro-engineering and Rehabilitation, they have conducted an analysis on Touch Bionics where they investigate the robustness and control possibilities. Ten healthy subjects are used in this research to assess the general applicability technique which is then compared to the baseline controlled condition with daily life activities including arm relaxed on table, raising their hands and arms, sitting down, standing, walking etc, an experimental proxy of what a patient is supposed to do in real life. The study will cross-subject models by testing other models. (Castellini,

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