Sentences with phrase «of amputees»

Technology is improving the lives of amputees, enabling them to move prosthetic limbs just by thinking.

One of Stratasys» subsidiaries can even scan the surviving leg of an amputee wounded in combat while still in field in Afghanistan and have a new, perfectly - fitted 3D - printed prosthetic ready hours later when he's delivered to Germany for surgery.

Such an attention getting event might be the simultaneous and overnight, 1) world wide total and permanent remission of all cancers, 2) world wide regeneration of limbs of all amputees, 3) world wide total cessation of sëx trafficking human abuse, 4) world wide total cessation of child abuse, 5) world wide cessation of all hostilities, 6) world wide sudden curing of diseases cause by genetic defects.

In 1999, Quinn began a series of marble sculptures of amputees as a way of re-reading the aspirations of Greek and Roman statuary and their depictions of an idealized whole.

Conservative estimates put the number of amputees in Cambodia at 30 000.

Topiary: Amputee with Peg Leg evokes a recurring theme in the work of Louise Bourgeois, reflecting the artist's personal experiences — a tribute to her sister Henriette, who was afflicted with a stiff leg, and early memories of amputees from World War I.

This approach has been tested on over a dozen of amputees with chronic phantom limb pain who found no relief by other clinically available methods before.

All of these advances will also help millions of amputees who have never seen combat.

Gather several true believers and pray for the healing of amputee soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Seventy per cent of amputees experience pain in the amputated limb despite that it no longer exists.

Powered lower limb prosthetics hold promise for improving the mobility of amputees, but errors in the technology may also cause some users to stumble or fall.

Despite the availability of new artificial limbs now being fitted to the country's millions of amputees by international aid agencies, Hassan says he prefers his peg - leg.

In 1999, Quinn began a series of marble sculptures of amputees as a way of re-reading the aspirations of Greek and Roman statuary and their depictions of an idealised whole.

It's not death theyshould fear, but the grim spectacle of wards full of amputees whose veins haveclogged, or the breathless emphysema wards.

Lots of amputees have no knees.

Why is it that I still seem deaf to the pleadings of amputees who would like their fingers, arms or legs back, to those who have physically lost eyes or ears, to the horribly burned and to all others who ail from patently visible and currently incurable maladies?

And if in the case of amputees, why not the crippled?

Anyone who claims prayer works, let's line up a bunch of amputees, or people with medical conditions that serious medical problems that never go into remission on their own, and are known to be incurable and untreatable.

Biochemistry explains why amputees do not heal, whereas if prayers worked we would see proof of amputees healing and pretty much anything one could pray about — but prayers do nothing at all.

The chances of your prayer being answered is the same as praying for the regeneration of an amputees leg.

And Google / Bing the existence (or non-existence) of god for hundreds of references and discussions on said topic to include the lack of amputee miracle reasoning.

To do this, it was recommended that the system should be able to take full pictures of amputees as evidence.

He is a patron of Merseyside Motor Neurone Disease Association and a patron of Amputees and Carer Support in Liverpool (ACSIL).

There's no doubt that a new limb centre will have made a significant difference to the lives of potentially thousands of amputees.

The achievements of amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius represents a deep shift in our ideas about what it means to be disabled — or human

Unlike the BrainGate researchers, who are trying to tap directly into the brain, Weir and Kuiken are attempting to pick up impulses coursing through the nerves and muscles that remain in the parts of amputee limbs that remain intact.

Researchers have long known that simply viewing an image of an amputee's intact foot or arm in a mirror can sometimes help relieve phantom pain, as if the brain's sense of self adjusts its conflicting sensations about the missing limb.

About a third of the amputees Ramachandran has studied also seem to have connections between points on their faces and points on their phantom hands.

This is usually naturally corrected as they grow up, he says, but in some people, the sight of an amputee at a very young age may have reinforce the alterations in the brain.

This rather contrasts with discussions in the modern medical literature regarding the rehabilitation of amputees from today's conflicts,» said Professor Rice, from the Department of Surgery and Cancer.

Depending on your type of disability, you are sure to find sites catering for the dating needs of amputees, crippled, visually impaired, people with speech impairment and others.

Thus the never - ending parade of amputees perpetuates on Cambodia's streets.

Cambodia today not only is one of the most bombed countries in the history of mankind, but also has the largest population of Amputees in the World, where 30 % of the UXO [un-exploded ordinances] related injuries and deaths involve children.

Phantom Fighters: Coping Mechanisms of Amputee Patients with Phantom Limb Pain: A Longitudinal Study

However, doctors and scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) are developing cutting edge prosthetics to improve the lives of amputees.

Phantom limb pain is now understood to be a consequence of how the nervous system adapts to damaged nerves and the loss of a limb, and affects around 59 per cent of amputees.

Scientists at M.I.T. Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of amputees.

What isn't there, of course, are the Cubs and the Red Sox, whose absence is a presence, like the phantom legs of an amputee.

Why has he never, EVER regenerated the limbs of an amputee?

Just look at all of the amputees that were made whole again through prayer!

Neural probe arrays are expected to significantly benefit the lives of amputees and people affected by spinal cord injuries or severe neuromotor diseases.

In addition to improved motor control, sensory stimulation could alleviate phantom limb pain, which affects ~ 80 % of amputees (2).

The study — led by the University of Exeter and the University of Strathclyde — compared the perception of people using their anatomical hands with that of amputees using prosthetic limbs.