Carl Stahl Sava Partners with Unlimited Tomorrow

Carl Stahl Sava Industries has partnered with Unlimited Tomorrow, the makers of TrueLimb, an affordable, totally autonomous prosthetic arm that provides wearers total control over the device’s robotic hand.
 
Unlimited Tomorrow founder and CEO Easton LaChappelle began the company with a singular mission: to offer people with a limb difference the chance to return to, or perhaps even begin, their best-lived lives by possessing natural, and total control over a once missing appendage.
 
How it Works
TrueLimb permits wearers the autonomous freedom to grab, pinch, twist, hold, lift, pull and push thanks to the device’s unique and revolutionary design and functionality of its mechanical cable-powered tendon system. Driving TrueLimb’s sophisticated range of motion controls are several, stainless steel mechanical cable assemblies produced by Carl Stahl Sava Industries. The cables behave as tendons, giving the hand natural and realistic human-like movement, while providing powerful grip capabilities as well.
 
The mechanical cables that facilitate TrueLimb’s movement comprise 7×49, stainless steel wire rope, that is .032” in diameter and coated with nylon to a diameter of .037”. The motion control systems in TrueLimb afford the prosthetic limb years of tremendous flexibility and continuous operation. The combination of the cable’s 100 lbs. tensile strength, extensive cycle counts and broad bending radii, means TrueLimb can live an extensive, uninterrupted life, ensuring wearers unlimited use for decades.
 
TrueLimb is also among the most affordable approaches to restoring motion to people with a limb difference. Before TrueLimb, even the most inexpensive multi-articulating, myoelectric prosthetic devices were cost-prohibitive to the majority of those in need. With TrueLimb, anyone can restore quality of life through mobility and now possess a realistic means to enjoy the freedom of arm, hand and finger motion again.
 
“We strive for quality in all of our components. When we encounter a challenge, we turned to experts likes Sava to help us produce the perfect mechanical cable assemblies to help power TrueLimb’s elegant tendon system,” said LaChappelle.
 
Sava’s Director of Business Development, Bruce Staubitz added, “What I love about TrueLimb is it allows people to do the ordinary things we take for granted in our daily lives. Joining forces with Unlimited Tomorrow has been one of those rare times where we get to say a day’s work bettered the lives of others.”