Sentences with phrase «first prosthesis»

The first prosthesis in the world that connects directly to the bone, nerves and muscles, allows the person to experience sensations, free mobility and is handled using the mind.

The skin grafts took a long time to heal, delaying the fitting of his first prosthesis until Aug. 1.

Not exact matches

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is the world's first FDA - approved «bionic» eye, a piece of technology that is helping the blind to see.

For the first time, a person who lost his hand has had a near - natural sense of touch restored thanks to a prosthesis that delivers electrical signals straight to individual nerves.

His baffling case serves as a reminder that four years after South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius propelled himself into history as the first amputee Olympic athlete to compete using blade prostheses, the technology's impact on performance remains unclear despite ongoing research.

He and former Harvard Medical School colleague Clay Reid first described their research into visual prostheses in a paper published last May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

For each patient, the procedure was performed in two stages: first, a porous - coated implant was placed in the femur bone, and second, a stoma, or opening, was created to attach the prosthesis.

The device consists of two parts, an implant and a prosthesis, the first part requires surgery in which a titanium piece is placed into the bone and a control system that connect electrodes to the muscles and nerves is installed.

In early 2011 his company, iWalk — headquartered near the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts — will release the PowerFoot One, the world's first robotic ankle - foot prosthesis, to the general public.

She tried a lighter prosthesis stuck on with glue, but it fell off the first time she used it.

FUJI, THE DOLPHIN Winter's not the first dolphin to receive a prosthesis — that distinction goes to Fuji, who had the end of her tail amputated after contracting a mysterious necrotic disease.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a self - expanding valve prosthesis for the first time has demonstrated significantly lower death rates at one year compared with conventional surgical valve replacement in high - risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

«The reasons for revision surgery are varied and can include infection, instability and loosening of the prostheses, and the need for revision can occur within the first few months after implantation,» Pourzal says.

In research reported this week in the «first release» section of the journal Science, Aseem Ansari, a professor of biochemistry and genomics at UW — Madison, and colleagues showed that their «molecular prosthesis» can help cellular machinery overcome the blockade posed by the repeats in Friedreich's ataxia.