Wonderful W-FH

Prosthetic and orthotic clinics, limb-fitting centres and rehabilitation departments that make upper-limb prostheses for individual wearers are the settings for the W-FH. Because the hand is customised according to the residual limb, it suits services where a prosthetist measures each wearer and plans a device around that person. Prosthetists and technicians lead the fitting, and occupational therapists bring the hand into daily routines once it is worn.

The case for this hand rests on its fingers. Every joint on all five of them works, so therapy can concentrate on finger posture as well as on whole-hand placement. A therapist can show a wearer how a finger curves around a cup handle and how the thumb and fingers settle on either side of a bottle. The segments of each digit can follow the edge of a plate or the spine of a book. Each of those positions depends on joints working throughout the finger, which is the defining property of the W-FH.

At home and at work, the same articulation serves ordinary handling. A wearer can carry a bag by its handles with the fingers curved through them, steady a letter flat on a desk, or rest the hand around a mug while the sound hand pours. Tasks of this kind need the fingers to take a shape that suits the object, and the W-FH has the joints to do that on every digit.

The custom build shapes how clinics plan orders. Each hand is made for one named wearer, so a service orders a W-FH for a specific person once that person's residual limb has been measured. For wearers who value a full five-fingered form with working joints, and for teams who already build every prosthesis to the individual, the hand fits the existing pattern of care.

Working joints on every finger

All five fingers have functioning joints, the thumb among them. Every digit articulates, so the whole hand takes part in shaping around a task.

Fingers that curve along their length

With a working joint between each segment, a finger can bend section by section. That lets it settle around rounded, narrow or flat-edged objects with each phalanx at its own angle.

A thumb that shapes the posture

The thumb is articulated with the other four digits. Its position contributes to how the hand sits on either side of an object such as a bottle or a box.

Made around one residual limb

The build is customised according to the wearer's residual limb. The finished hand is shaped for the limb it will be worn on, and for no one else.

One wearer, one build

Each W-FH is built to order for a named person. Clinics plan the hand as part of that wearer's individual prosthesis from the first measurement onward.

Aluminium and carbon fibre construction

The hand pairs a metal framework of aluminium with carbon fibre. Both materials are part of every unit, whatever the residual limb it is made for.

A full five-fingered form

Five articulated fingers give the hand the complete outline of a natural hand. Wearers who want every finger present and working have that in one component.

Clear identification

The hand is named Functional Hand and numbered W-FH. A clinic reorders or records it under one name and one item number.

Functional Hand

Wonderful names this prosthetic hand Functional Hand, a title that reflects its working finger joints.

Item number W-FH

W-FH is the item number that identifies the hand in orders and records.

Five fingers

Thumb, index, middle, ring and little finger are all present on the hand.

Functional finger joints

The joints of all five fingers have functions, so each digit articulates along its length.

Knuckle joints

Movement begins at the knuckles, where each finger meets the body of the hand.

Joints between the phalanges

Further working joints sit between the segments of each finger, out toward the fingertip.

Articulated thumb

The thumb carries working joints like the other four fingers and joins in setting the hand's posture.

Customised to the residual limb

Function and form are customised according to the residual limb of the person who will wear the hand.

Built to order

Every unit is made for one specific wearer, which follows directly from the customised build.

Aluminium

Aluminium is one of the two materials named for the hand, giving it a metal framework.

Carbon fibre

Carbon fibre is the second named material and is built into the hand together with the aluminium.

Single-wearer design

Since each hand is shaped around one limb, the finished W-FH is a personal component for its wearer.

Upper-limb prosthetic component

The W-FH serves as the hand of an upper-limb prosthesis, made by Wonderful for fitting by prosthetic teams.

The W-FH suits prosthetic teams who build every upper-limb device around the individual and want a hand whose fingers work at each joint. Its strength is the combination of those two facts. Articulation on all five fingers, thumb included, lets each digit curve along its length and settle around the object in front of it, while the customised build ties that function to one wearer's residual limb. For a clinic that measures each person before making a prosthesis, the hand fits the way it already works, and for a wearer who wants a complete, five-fingered hand with working joints, it delivers that form. Each W-FH is made from aluminium and carbon fibre and customised according to the residual limb it will be worn on.