While upper-limb prosthetic technology has improved significantly over the years, the technology likely will not successfully replace the complete functionality of the original hand. However, a potential key to dramatically improving traditional prosthetic technology could lie in garnering a better understanding of dynamic touch. Dynamic touch is a sense of proprioception that is derived from the information relayed by the activation of mechanoreceptors in the musculature of the limb as an object is moved through space. Even after an amputation, the residual limb still possesses mechanoreceptors that are capable of relaying information about the position of the limb (proprioception) and the properties of an object at the distal end of the limb (dynamic touch) to the remaining cortical space in the brain that is still dedicated to the missing limb. It is important for prosthetists to understand the significance of dynamic touch and how its principles can be applied to prosthetic limb fabrication, especially as it relates to extending physiologic perception.