Prosthesis

A Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) prosthesis is a medical device used for partial hip replacement surgery. The Birmingham Hip Resurfacing device is used to provide stability and mobility for patients with hip pain and joint deterioration. The implant contains two parts, both made of Cobalt-Chromium alloy. The top portion of the implant is spherical, which looks like half of a ball, with a thin cylindrical stem that branches out of the spherical piece. The parts are the acetabular cup and the…

mold cast of sculpted clay. Sculpt the desired shape of your prosthesis in any type of oil-based clay (Sculpey and modeling clay are effective). Create a wall of clay around your sculpted clay piece to create a bowl-like shape. Mix up some plaster and pour it into your “bowl” of clay around your sculpted clay piece. After the drying process, tear off the clay wall and clean your plaster mold of any leftover clay. To achieve the prosthesis, mix up unflavored gelatine (glycerin, water, unflavored…

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…

account for the patient’s PCL situation. If the entire PCL had to be removed, the prosthesis must include a PCL substitute. Otherwise, the replacement can either be implanted around or help support any existing PCL. More advanced replacements include the ability to allow minimal rotation as opposed to forward-back movement. When turning or leaning, the knee joint tends to shear as opposed to fold over itself. A prosthesis that includes this feature can help bridge the gap between the life…

As I sat in my doctor’s office trying to order my perceptions of what had just occurred, I realized that the attitude towards prosthesis after breast cancer is an index of this society’s attitudes towards women in general as decoration and externally defined sex object. Two days later I wrote in my journal: I cannot wear a prosthesis right now because it feels like a lie more than merely a costume, and I have already placed this, my body under threat, seeking new ways of strength and trying to…

In particular, the field of prosthetics has been greatly influenced by the increase in discoveries of new technology. In medicine, a prosthesis is a device that supplements for a defective or missing part of an individual’s body by being implanted or externally connected. Each patient has functional needs that determine how their prosthesis should be designed and assembled. Different types of these substitutions include limb, neck, and dental prostheses. Over the years, doctors and therapists…

Total knee replacement is also known as total knee arthroplasty (Scott, 2015). The reasons for having this arthroplasty (reconstruction of a joint) done include severe knee pain, and stiffness that limits the patient’s ability to walk (Phillips, 2013; Scott, 2015). This procedure relieves pain and helps the patient regain function of the knee by replacing three knee joints, the medial and lateral femorotibial joints, and the patellofemoral joint (Scott, 2015). When the patient is supine, the…

An advantage of the former method is that it allows for visual signal encoding to improve via processing algorithms that recall prior choices of adjustable features (Luo and Cruz 2014, 40). The Argus II Visual Prosthesis System, which was approved in Europe in 2011 and received FDA approval in 2013, uses a glasses-mounted camera to capture image data that is processed by a portable computer and converted into electrical patterns (Lorach et al. 2014). These signals…

The Human Eye One of the most composite and magnificent parts in the body is the human eye. Through eyes, people are able to visually see the world, and all of its wonders and spectacles. In the human body, “eyes are the second most complex organ in the body only behind the brain” (Butler, 2015). All over the world, people have various eye shapes, eye colors, and eye visions. However, unfortunately, there are some people who were either born blind or became blind due to the effects of old…

In particular, the field of prosthetics has been greatly influenced by the increase of discoveries of new technology. In medicine, a prosthesis is a device that supplements for a defective or missing part of an individual’s body by being implanted or externally connected. Each patient has functional needs that determine how their prosthesis should be designed and assembled. Different types of these substitutions include limb, neck, and dental prostheses. Over the years, doctors and therapists…