PWR-063 · Health, Rehabilitation & Adaptive Independence

Prosthetic embodiment

A prosthesis can sometimes feel and function more like part of the body—but only within a fitted, supported person-device system.

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Canonical Power learning unit · TLU-PWR-063

With Kai's prosthetic team, Kai completes the prescribed foam-cube transfer and reports control, embodiment, burden and skin condition as separate outcomes.

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PWR-063 · Prosthetic embodiment
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Practical authority
The tutorial teaches the complete method; qualified supervision controls the specified practical parts.
Current treatment
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Research depth
focused · 3 bound sources
Risk framing
high
Capability self-practice
Qualified supervision is required for the practical method
Pathway membership
Retained external route · SP-HUB-003

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Explanation is not permission.

This dossier explains the evidence and its limits. It is not a diagnosis, personal recommendation, assessment, clearance, performance promise or training programme. Actionable teaching appears only when the canonical Power record explicitly authorises it.

Complete bounded explanation

What this power means.

Capability to develop or express prosthetic embodiment in a declared context without inheriting broader claims.

What the current evidence supports

Some users can develop a stronger functional and experiential relationship with a fitted sensory prosthesis.

How to observe or measure it without overclaiming

Report ownership/agency scales, task function, wear time, device state, maintenance burden, adverse events and the user’s own value judgment.

Myth

Merge with a prosthesis and regain a natural limb

Metric

User-defined embodiment, task function, wear choice, device state and burden

Boundary

Embodiment scores do not prove biological restoration, universal preference or effortless use.

Negative and limiting findings

  • The home study involved two participants and device interruptions.
  • Device-off persistence and broad population benefit are not established.

Claims this evidence cannot support

  • prosthesis becomes a natural limb
  • cyborg upgrade
  • everyone should embody a device
  • implant restores the biological hand

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With Kai's prosthetic team, Kai completes the prescribed foam-cube transfer and reports control, embodiment, burden and skin condition as separate outcomes.

  1. Get readyThe prosthetist confirms fit, component integrity, battery/connection and permitted wear time.
  2. Learn the method10 concrete steps teach the permitted method from start to finish.
  3. See right and wrong7 comparisons show correct or safer execution beside common wrong or riskier choices.
  4. PractiseAt the next prosthetic-team appointment, repeat the same socket, alignment, seated posture, foam cube, 30 cm path and vision condition. Compare body-map displacement and the five separate ratings only after skin remains acceptable; any component, fit or feedback change starts a new profile.
  5. Check progressRecord device/configuration, successful moves, slips/collisions, assistance, wear time, skin response and separate agency, ownership, location, comfort and usefulness ratings. Add the two-colour body-map displacement, vision condition and neutral agency, ownership, location-confidence and usefulness ratings to foam-cube transfer and skin record.

Authority boundary: Titan teaches the complete method; a qualified person controls the parts that require supervision, clearance, specialist equipment, load, dose or progression. The method is Power-specific; its actionability follows this treatment.

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Direct evidence register

Sources that support—and limit—the claim.

Citation roles are explicit. A source may support existence or trainability while simultaneously limiting transfer, certainty, generalisation or safety.

  1. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Home Use of a Neural-connected Sensory Prosthesis Provides the Functional and Psychosocial Experience of Having a Hand Again

    Emily L Graczyk; Linda Resnik; Matthew A Schiefer; Melissa S Schmitt; Dustin J Tyler · 2018 · Primary research

  2. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Restoration of motor control and proprioceptive and cutaneous sensation in humans with prior upper-limb amputation via multiple Utah Slanted Electrode Arrays implanted in residual peripheral arm nerves

    Suzanne Wendelken; David M Page; Tyler Davis; Heather A C Wark; David T Kluger; Christopher Duncan; David J Warren; Douglas T Hutchinson; Gregory A Clark · 2017 · Primary research

  3. Limiting / contraryOfficial boundary context
    Assistive technology

    World Health Organization · 2024 · Official authority

Current teaching and evidence boundary

The next gate remains visible.

External confirmation is required before higher-authority use because: a clinical, high-risk or regulated configuration; a supervision or non-attempt boundary; cultural, community-rights or affected-person authority; a restricted safety or legitimacy boundary.

A Power-specific tutorial is available at /tutorials/pwr-063/. It contains a plain-English method, 10 ordered steps, a worked example, right-versus-wrong comparisons, specific mistakes and corrections, practice, measurement, accessibility, stopping rules and evidence. Its supervised mode remains controlling.