Prosthesis

Background Recent conflicts have seen an increase in trauma related military amputees who incur complex injuries which result in varied residual limbs. In many cases these amputees have been provided with state of the art (SOTA) components with the expectation that they will tra…

In this thesis Graphit-iC™, an amorphous carbon coating developed by Teer Coatings Ltd. was modified and deposited onto CoCr and WHMWPE substrates in order to improve the wear properties. It was identified that depositing a hard coating onto soft substrate would cause high stres…

The goal of this research is to design and build a more life-like prosthesis with a higher degree of freedom than currently available prosthetic devices. Direct brain monitoring of the motor cortices was selected as a control mechanism that would provide more versatility than th…