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A real amputee using fake gore assists with military training
Thursday, June 04, 2009
John Pickup, managing director of Amputees in Action, explains how using real amputees and fake gore to simulate battlefield injuries can aid military training.
From infancy, people learn best by mimicking situations, especially using common objects that are applicable to the scene. [...]
REVOLUTIONIZING PROSTHETICS PROGRAM
(From the DARPA Fact Sheet, February 2008)
Throughout history, the battlefield loss of limbs has been the major driving force for
technological progress in the field of prosthetics. For example, formation of the American
Orthotic and Prosthetic Association resulting from the post-WWII leadership of Dr. Norman
Kirk, Surgeon General of the Army, helped launch the modern era [...]
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