Phantom limbs

Imagine a world where people do not accept they are different and want to be the same as everyone else. If the people did not accept who they were then that could lead to wanting to change everything about them just to fit in. It could also lead to one becoming to fake in who one wants to be that one will get bullied for how they are trying to hard. The world should never come to this so the reason that it is okay to be different. Being different is a chance to show people who really are. Even though

Robotic prosthesis are meant to work exactly the same as a normal limb by controlling it through a person’s thoughts. Robotics is the study of robots. People use for different kinds of things from space rovers to prosthetics. Prosthetics are artificial devices that are used in place of defective or missing limbs. What would happen if these two were combined? Robotic prosthetics are made which are made to be almost an equal as a regular limb. From the early days of Egyptian, Roman, and Greek civilization

Occupational Therapy Interventions Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy & Modified Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a treatment approach that has been found to be effective in unilateral (hemiplegic) spastic cerebral palsy. It involves constraint of the less impaired upper extremity and repetitive practice of the affected arm and hand. Casts, splints, and slings are used to restrain the unaffected arm while the individual is encouraged to use

Musculoskeletal The patient has right sided weakness on upper and lower extremities related to her stroke. Right sided weakness prevalent on range of motion exercises, mobility and strength is limited. Left sided range of motion was completed while the patient was sitting bedside, she was able to complete range of motion by lifting left leg, bending left knee and flexing the left foot without difficulty. The patient is unsteady, weak and is unable to stand or transfer on her own, so I was unable

body part.” Despite this fact, prosthetics were extremely uncomfortable to wear and were considered “crude contraptions” and “ were usually made of wood or steel --- that were awkward and painful to wear.” Many soldiers did not like having prosthetic limbs, as they were uncomfortable to wear and awkward to move around with.

help people who have lost a body part. With these limbs they can do almost anything that a person with their original arm could do. More and more people keep getting the limbs everyday. Bionic body parts are used to help people who have a problem or that have lost a part of their bodies. These body parts are mostly used to replace parts that were lost due to a terrible accident or that are lost due to disease. In the article it states ”Artificial limbs, or prostheses, are used to replace a missing body

Analysis #1 Langan J, DeLave K, Phillips L, Pangilinan P, Brown SH. Home-Based Telerehabilitation Shows Improved Upper Limb Function in Adults with Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study. Journal of rehabilitation medicine. 2013;45(2):217-220. doi:10.2340/16501977-1115 What did the researchers study and why? • Technology-based rehabilitation for stroke patients with chronic upper-limb conditions • Testing the success of telerehabilitation training • The potential for expansion of physical therapy to more

Abstract—Lower extremity amputation constitute high percentage of limb amputation which significantly reduce the motion ability and quality of life of the amputees. Therefore the most important goal in the design of prosthesis is to restore function of the lost limb. Most of the commercially available ankle-foot prostheses are passive and thus cause many gait pathologies for below knee amputees, such as high metabolic demand, poor shock tolerance and asymmetric gait patterns. Even though several

Innovations of Prosthetic Limbs in “My 12 Pairs of Legs” by Aimee Mullins This communications study will define the aesthetic beauty of prosthetic limbs in “My 12 Pairs of Legs” by Aimee Mullins. Mullins provides insight into the beauty of prosthetic legs from the perspective of the fashion industry. The potential for aesthetic uses of prosthetic limbs, such as legs, provides a way for women to move beyond the “cheetah style” legs, and to also provide a more visually realistic looking limb. In essence, Mullins

According to Carroll, the “prosthetic device” allows us to see the things that we normally see, but in a way that we would not be able to see without their intervention and how the person taking the shots perception. The prosthetic device can be the use of a camera, telescopes, or any mechanical tools that can capture the movement and nature of the subject to “overcome visual shortcomings and to see what is otherwise visually unavailable” (94). Like shots captured in a film, photography can show