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Gaze, behavioral, and clinical data for phantom limbs after hand amputation from 15 amputees and 29 controls.

ABSTRACT: Despite recent advances in prosthetics, many upper limb amputees still use prostheses with some reluctance. They often do not feel able to incorporate the artificial hand into their bodily self. Furthermore, prosthesis fitting is not usually tailored to accommodate the characteristics of an individual's phantom limb sensations. These are experienced by almost all persons with an acquired amputation and comprise the motor and postural properties of the lost limb. This article presents and validates a multimodal dataset including an extensive qualitative and quantitative assessment of phantom limb sensations in 15 transradial amputees, surface electromyography and accelerometry data of the forearm, and measurements of gaze behavior during exercises requiring pointing or repositioning of the forearm and the phantom hand. The data also include acquisitions from 29 able-bodied participants, matched for gender and age. Special emphasis was given to tracking the visuo-motor coupling between eye-hand/eye-phantom during these exercises.

SUBMITTER: Saetta G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033227 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Gaze, behavioral, and clinical data for phantom limbs after hand amputation from 15 amputees and 29 controls.

Saetta Gianluca G Cognolato Matteo M Atzori Manfredo M Faccio Diego D Giacomino Katia K Mittaz Hager Anne-Gabrielle AG Tiengo Cesare C Bassetto Franco F Müller Henning H Brugger Peter P

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Despite recent advances in prosthetics, many upper limb amputees still use prostheses with some reluctance. They often do not feel able to incorporate the artificial hand into their bodily self. Furthermore, prosthesis fitting is not usually tailored to accommodate the characteristics of an individual's phantom limb sensations. These are experienced by almost all persons with an acquired amputation and comprise the motor and postural properties of the lost limb. This article presents and validat ...[more]

PMID: 32080198

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Gaze, behavioral, and clinical data for phantom limbs after hand amputation from 15 amputees and 29 controls.

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Gaze, behavioral, and clinical data for phantom limbs after hand amputation from 15 amputees and 29 controls.

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