The Evolution Of Prosthetic Limbs

Its 2016 should be advancing technology or not? We have heard and seen people with absent limbs. Today we have Cyborgs competing in the Olympics; if it weren’t for prosthetic limbs they wouldn’t be able to have the chance to represent us. What about the veterans that have had limbs been blow off and therefore couldn’t hold their children? Now they can. Or even those that were born limbless and had to grow up being different and relying on other, now can now live independently and a normal life.
Throughout the years prosthetics have advanced. They once started off as just as plastic figure of limb but through the evolution of science the artificial limbs can now be mobile and controlled. (Briefly – how?) Maybe talk about what technology there was in the past – compare it to now? …show more content…
But when we lose something so valuable like a limb we then realise you can’t just go out and replace it. There a lot of movies that has characters with bionic limbs, such as Bucky Barnes from Captain America, Alex Murphy from Robocop, and Gazelle from Kingsman: The Secret Service. All these characters have experienced situation where their limbs have been amputated and replaced with prosthetic ones. The characters use the prosthetic limbs to their advantage in their jobs. Through these movies society is being introduced to prosthesis and that they can be used for