As Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system, prosthetics are quietly getting some attention.
Unlike most conventional prosthetics, this hand boasts five individually-powered fingers -- including a fully rotatable thumb.
Phillip underwent six or seven operations and then began intense physiotherapy before getting measured for prosthetics.
Arm and hands prosthetics are generally not as advanced as those for feet and legs.
The advances in prosthetics over the past couple of decades has simply been amazing.
And the full cost of prosthetics for veterans will continue to be borne by the government.
Some of that is paying for ongoing prosthetics for three children until they reach age 18.
"There tends to be tremendous innovations in the field of prosthetics whenever we're at war, " he said.
But I found two interesting reads on solar race cars and prosthetics for dolphins.
The results showed that the prosthetics returned more energy and lost less energy compared to the able-bodied runners.
This approach can provide incredible control over an artificial arm, but patients often prefer to use simpler, mechanical prosthetics.
Makeup artists can layer prosthetics on him without giving him a clunky silhouette.
Compared with the primitive prosthetics of my youth, modern prosthetics are technological marvels.
Today, people who need a new ear often turn to prosthetics that require a rod to fasten to the head.
This is a real wake-up call for us and we need to increase our capacity to deliver improved and modern prosthetics.
Michael Corcoran, a prosthetist who has been working with Gadson, said he thinks prosthetics of the future will be more powerful.
The challenges incorporate a wide range of skill sets involving the use of prosthetics, 3-D design, sculpting, eye enhancers, casting, and molding.
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They also say the angle at which the shots were fired shows that Pistorius was already wearing his prosthetics when he fired.
The hands are not waterproof, which is one reason Koger says he'll still keep his other prosthetics, like his metal claw, available.
So the prosthetics works, you know, and all things considered, works great.
"I'm confident that with leaps and bounds in prosthetics they will get back to a completely normal life, " says O-Lyn marketing director Mark Negron.
Meanwhile, Thomas, a full-time college student in Charleston, South Carolina, spent the summer at home in Chattanooga working at a prosthetics and orthotics company.
Some insurance companies have said that premiums would go up for everyone if they were forced to cover prosthetics to the extent advocates want.
The goal, of course, is to make prosthetics more sophisticated, subtle, and ultimately, more closely interfaced with living human beings and therefore more helpful.
Speaking of prosthetics, a sea turtle that lost her fins to a shark attack is swimming again with a new pair of prosthetic limbs.
This is not a tax on consumers and claims that the tax will result in higher prices for prosthetics or other medical devices are wrong.
Pistorius also has a sponsorship deal with Icelandic prosthetics manufacturer Ossur.
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The Mk 1 actually began life in the world of prosthetics.
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Herr himself was wearing these new prosthetics from the knees down.
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Enamur Rahman, chairman of Enam, where some Rana Plaza amputees are recovering, said the hospital was committed to providing prosthetics and rehabilitation for amputees for free.
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