Didrick Medical Inc. is a small privately owned company located in Naples, Florida, that designs and fabricates active-function artificial finger prostheses, called the X-Finger, for partial finger amputees. The owner refined the design for more than six years before he took it to the marketplace. The device is body-powered, light-weight, and allows users to regain complete control of the flexion and extension movements of an artificial finger in a self-contained device. Each X-Finger is custom fabricated to accommodate a variety of finger amputation cases. “Our current direction is to use emerging technologies to improve the lives of people who have lost fingers,” says Dan Didrick, owner of Didrick Medical.

The U.S. Department of Defense is funding the company’s research into a functional thumb. Didrick Medical holds patents for the X-Finger technology in more than 140 countries.

 …