Participants
RECRUITMENT
Eligible participants were adult subjects having undergone unilateral transradial amputation due to acquired (a minimum of six month prior) or congenital causes, who regularly used a myoelectric prosthesis and had good control over the prosthesis, whose stump was stabilized, whose professional activity or life project justified the use of a myoelectric hook, who was capable of understanding the test instructions and who have given their free and informed written consent. The exclusion criteria applied to the recruitment of participants were as follows: minors, pregnant women, persons in emergency situations, persons unable to personally give their consent, persons who are psychically or linguistically unable to understand the instructions for taking the research tests, persons not available to comply with the entire study protocol.