Advantages And Disadvantages Of Prosthetics

In this essay I will be addressing prosthetic limbs. Prosthetic limbs is what people with no hands or legs use to have a better accommodation where ever they are, these people who do not have legs or arms have a lot of disadvantage in their lives for example a person who lives alone at home and has no hands this person’s life will not be very easy because he can’t do any errands at home or this person cannot get a job because of their disability, the same can be with the legs. People created this type of mechanism to replace what this person needs so that he doesn’t have this type of problem, another problem is that people around the person with the disability of having no arms or legs he or she will not be accept the society that is surrounding …show more content…
Also I’m going to talk about the advantages and disadvantages, the effects on the people, society and environment… First of all prosthetic limbs (limbs is “replacement”) are artificial replacements or substitutes of a lost part of the body from birth or not functioning in the body, also because of accidents, illness… There is a type of prosthetic limbs that are called cosmesis, this are designed to be a purely cosmetic and little or not functioning for example a not functioning hand enters this category. Other prosthesis includes also other parts like a prosthetic leg it is covered by the pants, this are highly functional or has no cosmetic disguise. Types of prosthesis, I’m only going to explain four types of prosthetic limbs because there are a variety of different types of prosthetic limbs. The first is below the knee as