Touch Bionics, a company developing advanced upper-limb bionic technologies, has recently announced the commercial launch of ProDigits, which is said to be the world's first powered bionic finger solution for patients with missing fingers. From now on, partial-hand patients have a new dexterous powered solution that can offer them a means of returning to function and independence.

Developed by the same company that created market leading bionics, such as the i-Limb Hand, the ProDigits solution extends the life-changing technology to the partial-hand patients that miss fingers due to congenital anomalies or to amputation after a traumatic incident or medical condition. The amputee population that can benefit from the ProDigits is quite considerable, and estimated at around 40,000 people in the U.S. alone, and 1.2 million worldwide, that had absolutely no commercially available powered prosthetic solution open to them until now.

"Vocational and social re-engagement is very important to a patient’s rehabilitation after a traumatic event. Partial-hand injuries are, by their nature, challenging aesthetically and functionally,” said Stuart Mead, CEO, Touch Bionics. “With ProDigits, our goal is to provide all that we can to reinstate a patient’s function and interaction with other people in their chosen lifestyle and career.”

We can all relate to the fact that not having fingers or an opposable thumb makes ordinary tasks like grabbing your mobile phone or holding a glass not only difficult, but most of the times impossible, thus frustrating. That is exactly why the ProDigits provides the biggest benefit to the patient, namely the ability to bend, touch, pick up and point, and used with an overall prosthesis makes for a normal hand.

Just like any prosthesis, the very first nature of the ProDigits fitting is also personalization; therefore, Touch Bionics is developing a clinical collaborator program in North America that will engage practitioners in order to fit patients.


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