Getting to grips with an artificial finger

2012-08-28 89

Surgeons at Malmö's University Hospital in Sweden are used to treating patients with injured hands or fingers, but sometimes the only option they have is to amputate.

Modern prosthetics can help to restore the ability to grip or manipulate objects, to carry things or even write, but they do nothing to replace the sense of touch that goes when a patient loses a limb.

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