New Engineering Concepts and Alternative Materials for Prostheses

This overview paper summarizes work in new materials and designs for prostheses and reports on the papers presented at the Fifteenth Annual Day Conference, held at Leeds, 5 January 1990, by the Bioengineering Group for the Study of Human Joints in association with the Biological Engineering Society.

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