HANDBOOK (V
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COMPLETE CONTROL SYSTEM GEN2
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Step 2: Determine where there is underlying muscle tissue on the residual limb
Palpation isn’t what it used to be. For single- or dual-site, conventional myoelectric control electrode planning,
you may have been used to feeling for strong, isolated contractions using your fingertips. Forget that. For
pattern recognition go all in. Use all of your hands to feel as much of their residual limb as possible, at once.
Hold on and feel while you repeat and continue the discussion from Step 1.
Why do you want to do this? The continued discussion helps to further discover their intuitive motion plans
while, at the same time, lets you feel for the general and global areas of underlying muscle tissue. Remember,
pattern recognition doesn’t always require strong and isolated sites, it wants to get info from lots of muscle
areas—even the areas that may seem weak and hardly perceptible.
THIS WHOLE-HANDED PALPATION SHOULD:
1.
Feel for all “areas of interest” corresponding to any and all underlying muscle
activity related to the control motions.
2.
Keep note/remember these “areas of interest” as good locations to place
electrode contacts.
