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What a Research Review Taught Me About the Future of Body-Powered Prosthetics

What a Research Review Taught Me About the Futu...

By Dominic Casale Before interning at Marins Inc., I assumed body-powered prosthetics had already reached their full potential. After learning more about the field, I realized that while these devices    have...

What a Research Review Taught Me About the Futu...

By Dominic Casale Before interning at Marins Inc., I assumed body-powered prosthetics had already reached their full potential. After learning more about the field, I realized that while these devices    have...

What Marins Inc. Taught Me About Innovation Beyond the Product

What Marins Inc. Taught Me About Innovation Bey...

By Dominic Casale I thought innovation was mostly about creating a great product. While that's certainly important, I've learned that bringing an idea to life requires much more than engineering...

What Marins Inc. Taught Me About Innovation Bey...

By Dominic Casale I thought innovation was mostly about creating a great product. While that's certainly important, I've learned that bringing an idea to life requires much more than engineering...

Why Body-Powered Innovation Belongs in the O&P Classroom

Why Body-Powered Innovation Belongs in the O&P ...

By Dominic Casale Before interning at Marins Inc., I assumed most innovation in upper-limb prosthetics was happening in the robotics department and was already advanced. Becoming an intern changed my...

Why Body-Powered Innovation Belongs in the O&P ...

By Dominic Casale Before interning at Marins Inc., I assumed most innovation in upper-limb prosthetics was happening in the robotics department and was already advanced. Becoming an intern changed my...

Man wearing ProHensor terminal device smiles and gives thumbs up with natural hand.

The Grip Has to Hold

Voluntary closing was a leap forward. But maintaining grip requires sustained harness tension — and sustained tension is fatigue. The ProHensor® is the first modular voluntary closing auto-locking terminal device,...

The Grip Has to Hold

Voluntary closing was a leap forward. But maintaining grip requires sustained harness tension — and sustained tension is fatigue. The ProHensor® is the first modular voluntary closing auto-locking terminal device,...

A ProHensor holding a banana while peeling with the other hand.

Why Choose Between Hold and Control?

Voluntary closing systems have offered superior grip control and proprioceptive feedback for over a decade. The research is settled. The question now is whether fitting practice is ready to move...

Why Choose Between Hold and Control?

Voluntary closing systems have offered superior grip control and proprioceptive feedback for over a decade. The research is settled. The question now is whether fitting practice is ready to move...

Prosthetic device holding a cutting board with a pizza on it.

What Your Patient Is Not Telling You

The complaints are quiet ones. I have to watch it constantly. My shoulder is tired by noon. I just do not trust it with anything fragile. These are not adjustment...

What Your Patient Is Not Telling You

The complaints are quiet ones. I have to watch it constantly. My shoulder is tired by noon. I just do not trust it with anything fragile. These are not adjustment...

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