About Idea of the Day
“Idea of the Day” is a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the Week in Review highlighting the most interesting writing we’ve come across lately on the Web. We’re generalists, so consider this a thinking person’s grazing buffet.Today’s idea: Technology and the marketplace have transformed the artificial limb from emblem [...]
Here is more on the “SmartHand”, the amazing “sensitive” prosthetic hand that we featured on the 21st October: blog/2009/10/21/robotic-hand-that-feels/
You can see a video clip on the link below the story. Clearly a fantastic breakthrough but I wonder how much one of these will cost!!
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London, England (CNN) — Researchers are working on a breakthrough in artificial [...]
Carbon-fibre blades like those worn by sprinter Oscar Pistorius do not give an edge over able-bodied athletes
Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who wears carbon-fibre blades, lost his bid to compete against able-bodied athletes at the Beijing Olympics.
Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
Prosthetics worn by disabled sprinters confer no speed advantage, scientists have found. If anything, they may [...]
A doctor posed a simple question to Army Maj. A.J. Tong during his recovery from severe injuries in Iraq.
“What do you want to do?” the doctor asked.
“Everything I did before,” Tong recalls responding.
Life had irrevocably changed for Tong, 33, who lives in Yelm. An especially lethal kind of roadside bomb hit him on a road [...]
Comparing Scars
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
By Laura Bennett
Photo Courtesy of The News Journal
Rob Kislow who says that without his prosthetics he would have “lost all the joys” in life
For Rob Kislow, getting shot was a kind of relief. He remembers a moment of otherworldly calm as the percussive roar of gunfire and the [...]
By Gregg Zoroya – USA Today
Posted : Thursday Aug 20, 2009 19:21:48 EDT
Military scientists have identified genes and proteins called biomarkers that could enable doctors to tailor personalized treatments for troops suffering traumatic injuries, such as those caused by roadside bombs.
Researchers hope the troops will heal and recover faster, said Navy Cmdr. Eric Elster, [...]
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Four year old Harvey Slack lost both arms and legs after contracting meningitis in a case that doctors said was the worst they had ever treated.
Now Key 103 is attempting to come to his aid and raise £60,000 [...]
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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