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To: WMarshal
Look..im a arm amputee

Main problem with prosthetics is not getting all these fancy Fingers and crap to grab

The issue the main issue in getting a stable permanent attachmem of the prosthetic to your stump that is equal to a real arm.

You can make the the ability to grab something better but went you pick up or move something with any weight behind IT and your prosthetic arm twist or pull or shifts on your stump your screw

I just got a new arm with with the latest and greatest attachment system to the and its still shifts

The medical community and Prosthetics are always working on the wrong end and need develop a better attachment of the prosthetic to the stump.

13 posted on 03/08/2017 9:12:47 PM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: tophat9000

Could they do a metal clasp that mounts into the bone of the arm and then attach it to the prosthetic limb?

I admit I’m not up on all the available methods of attachment.


14 posted on 03/08/2017 9:20:20 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: tophat9000
Sorry that you have to go through all of that.

A future option might be a implant into a bone that extrudes through the skin where the skin bonds to the implant using the biological process that the skin of a male deer bonds to the bone of the antler. The artificial arm could then attach to the implant. They did this for a cat already:

Amputee cats given bionic paws in groundbreaking surgery

15 posted on 03/09/2017 4:41:42 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: tophat9000
It looks like they are doing that for people already now:

http://www.popsci.com/fda-approves-prosthetic-legs-anchor-directly-bone

16 posted on 03/09/2017 4:44:24 PM PST by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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