{"id":255,"date":"2010-01-03T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:46:12","slug":"becker-mechanical-hands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?page_id=255","title":{"rendered":"::BECKER::"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?cat=67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Becker Lock Grip and the Becker Imperial hands<\/a> are, with a huge advantage in performance compared to other hands, the devices I see best fit to complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a maximum of Activities of Daily Living (ADL)<\/a> using my body powered below elbow prosthesis, almost as powerful as the massively proficient <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?page_id=278&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">V2P Prehensor<\/a>. It obviously does not look like a real anatomical hand but that turned out to not be a big issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Becker hand is extremely fast, intuitive to use, compliant and very sturdy. My preference is the Becker Imperial hand.<\/p>\n<p>Here a video showing its use for even rather bumpy mountain bike riding uphill. Perfect handling of the bike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/beckerforest.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/beckerforest.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Becker hand is the only prosthetic hand that has a perfect, reliably repeatable precision grip, fits standard size 8 gloves (here: work glove with nitrile cover) and that has an adaptive grip, AND that can be financed without problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/beckerstring.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4449 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/beckerstring.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Becker hand is extremely fast as this shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/beckerspeed.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4450 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/beckerspeed.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It costs around 650 USD and is very robust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckermechanicalhand.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/becker\/becker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[DEUTSCH] Becker Handprothesen k\u00f6nnen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckermechanicalhand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">direkt bei John Becker<\/a> bestellt werden.<\/p>\n<p>[ENGLISH] Becker Mechanical Hands can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckermechanicalhand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered directly from John Becke<\/a>r.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer: I am not involved with the business of Becker Mechanical Hands. They are just great products that I took the liberty to critically review. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Becker Lock Grip and the Becker Imperial hands are, with a huge advantage in performance compared to other hands, the devices I see best fit to complete a maximum of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) using my body powered below elbow prosthesis, almost as powerful as the massively proficient V2P Prehensor. It obviously does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpcat-1-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 20:50:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}