An experimental unpowered walking aid

Movement is made by rocking on to one foot, turning about it to advance the other foot and then rocking back on to the second foot. The legs remain parallel, therefore the stride is short and progress slow.

Looking at bone plates and screws

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Mechanical engineers and orthopaedic surgeons have much to offer each other in the development and rationalisation of the current range of orthopaedic implants.

Commentary: accident prevention and industrial safety

The four opening speakers were a manager of a construction company, a chief safety officer, a doctor and a design engineer. Mr Cyril Roberts, Chairman of Woodall Duckhams Ltd, outlined the complexity of interests in the construction and process plant industries.

Research notes: providing mobility

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One of the main objectives of this journal is to provide a means of contact between complementary groups working on engineering problems in medicine.

Around the world: what's happening in Europe

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Across the world the partnership between engineering and medicine is producing many exciting developments. The problem is how to keep up with what is going on. Because of lack of information there is still much duplication of effort.Yet who are we to complain ?

News from crad: an introduction

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In 1959 the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases established a Committee for Research on Apparatus for the Disabled (CRAD), under the chairmanship of Sir Harry Platt, Bt, LLD, MD, MS, FRCS, FACS.

Health care and the NRDC

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The National Research Development Corporation has been in the business of encouraging innovation for over 22 years and it has now become a prototype for similar organisations in other countries.

Partnership

Medicine has taken a vast step forward with the other branches of science and could be appropriately described as having exploded into the jet age.

An adaptively鈥恈ontrolled prosthetic hand

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This is a description of an adaptively%Hontrolled prosthetic hand now being developed at the University of Southampton.