Thursday, 8 June 2017

What You Must Know About Prosthetics?

By Mark Wondsner


No matter what you do or are willing to do, you have to make sure that you never allow any kind of deformities, injuries or damages to create problems in your life and minimize your efficiency making you less productive. It is very important to consider these things as because there are several tasks that we do on a daily basis, which cannot be performed if we lose a body part such as a limb or two.

People are trying to find out methods that can increase the human efficiency by creating innovative technological breakthroughs. This has inspired people and they are always up for getting out of any kind of problem. Similar, development has been seen in the field of prosthetics. Artificial body parts that are made for individuals that are suffering from amputation, which helps them to continue their life without any hindrance is called Prosthetics.

Having a prosthetic limb is one of the most common practices as far as prosthetics is concerned. One of the major reason for the growing use of prosthetics limbs is because a majority of the injuries and diseases that are known to attack the lower part of the body. For an instance, if you are an athlete, you are more likely to injure your legs as compared to your arms.

Likewise, the size of the artificial limbs for the kids shall be smaller as compared to the limbs of an adult and also the type of limb they use. Therefore this also becomes very important for the individual to ensure that it takes proper advice about getting the right artificial limbs or prosthetics which suits the body.

Another important part of prosthetic is the usage of prosthetic arm. The prosthetic arm is of course more complicated as they have to perform several functions like gripping and holding things. With the advancements in the technology, the modern day prosthetics have been created as such they can function in coordination to their brain, which was not possible in the past years and they appear to be more real than before.

Even for individuals that have disfigured their parts due to accidents or diseases, cosmetic prosthesis such as breast prosthesis after mastectomy woks as a hope for them. For individuals that do breast prosthesis, silica is used to create the breast and it is covered with plastic skin. After completion with adding the nipples, they feel like real breasts, however they do not complete the purpose of breast feeding.

For an instance, individuals are known to get an artificial foot, which can easily range from 22 to 28 centimetres. Along with that for individuals that choose to replace there knee joints with prosthetics it is known to be of 500 grams and sometimes more.

Of course it depends of the individual what kind of material does it prefer to be used for the prosthetics? Plastic and metals are the most common used materials, however ceramic is also found to be a huge help in making prosthetics and considered as the best prosthetic material.




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