title: The high-tech hand surgery interface.
abstract: We have reviewed a potpourri of high-tech advances of interest to the hand surgeon: electronically controlled prostheses, functional neuromuscular stimulation, computer graphics, data base computer programs, 3-D imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and lasers--fields that point toward new directions in medicine, in general, and in our specialty, in particular, as we enter the twenty-first century. With clearer understanding of the basics, we can overcome the natural tendencies of negativism fostered by the complexities of the new ideas and proceed with optimism and curiosity.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001132:Arm; D001186:Artificial Limbs; D003201:Computers; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery*; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D053685:Laser Therapy; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed