The motion analysis of two-finger tip pinching using the thumb and index finger provides crucial data for designing the motion\nmechanism of electric prosthetic hands. The purpose of this study is to determine the joints that have high mobility\nduring two-finger tip pinching by measuring the flexion angle of each joint. Ten Japanese men with normal hand were selected.\nCT images were obtained while the hands adopted the following four postures: a basic posture not pinching a cylinder, and\nthree postures pinching wooden cylinders with different diameters (2, 10, and 30 mm). Three-dimensional bone models of the\nthumb and index finger were created using the CT images and used to measure the flexion angles of the joints. The flexion\nangles of the proximal interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal joints of the index finger significantly decreased as the\ndiameter of the cylinder increased. However, even when the diameter of the cylinder changed, the flexion angle of the distal\ninterphalangeal joint of the index finger, and the flexion and rotation angles of all of the thumb joints did not change. When\npinching objects of different sizes with a two-finger tip pinch, the posture of the thumb is fixed, and only the posture of the\nindex finger changes. When designing the two-finger tip pinch motion for an electric prosthetic hand, it is sufficient to drive the\njoints of the index finger only.
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