Sentences with phrase «prostheses do»

Paralympic long jump champ Markus Rehm's bid to compete in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics fell short in July when he could not prove that his carbon - fiber «blade» prosthesis didn't give him an advantage.

Still, there remains one stark difference between his invention and the real human limb: Herr's prosthesis does not connect to the central nervous system, so the wearer can not move it just by thinking.

The flesh - colored prosthesis did not restore Fiorentini's hearing.

Not exact matches

Prosthesis for spiritual amputees, which unfortunately does not permit them to get a firm grip on anything.»

Our goal is to provide running prostheses and devices for amputees that don't have the resources.»

I'm afraid that what Oscar's doing will hurt the chances of Paralympians competing against able - bodied athletes, because people will say the prostheses are an advantage — and they're not.»

Grabowski and her colleagues found that Rehm and other world - class long jumpers with a below - the - knee amputation use a fundamentally different technique than competitors who do not need a prosthesis.

«What neural prosthetic devices do is communicate seamlessly to an external prosthesis,» Karumbaiah said, «providing independence of function without having to have a person or a facility dedicated to their care.»

«I didn't realise it was possible,» says Dennis Aabo Sørensen, who is so far the only person to have been fitted with the new prosthesis.

«With my existing prosthesis I always have to look at what I'm doing with it,» says Sørensen.

Moreover, the researchers found no difference in leg swing times between the two limbs, suggesting that — even though the prostheses are lighter than biological legs — amputee sprinters don't move their legs faster.

«From the data we've collected so far, there doesn't seem to be any advantage in using a running - specific prosthesis,» Grabowski says.

But his J - shaped carbon - fiber prostheses, called the Össur Flex - Foot Cheetah, sparked a debate within the athletic world: Do the devices give him an unfair advantage over able - bodied competitors?

The idea thatthe most realistic prosthetic hands might avoid the uncanny valley is intriguing, and promising for prosthetic wearers, who naturally don't want people to recoil from their prostheses.

Bargar hopes it will be able to prepare bones for different joints, such as knees, or different designs of prosthesis that would be too difficult to do by conventional surgery.

«But if we could develop a prosthesis that does exactly what an anatomical leg does, theoretically the brain is already programmed to respond to that.»

I am not sure what strength training to do for my legs without risking damaging the prosthesis other than perhaps the stationary bicycle.

For the sake of keeping up professional appearances, Wolff takes on a job that doesn't involve the mob: He's hired to look for possible embezzlement in an up - and - coming conglomerate that specializes in developing high - tech prostheses.

«We want our students doing the same kinds of tests [of their devices] that the experts do when they're designing prostheses,» Coronado says.

In doing so, he fixates on both the concept and construction of the prosthesis.

Thus, the «dangerous instrument» charge does not apply only to persons who wear prostheses.

A lawyer who has a limb amputated, for example, won't be eligible for benefits if he or she can wear a prosthesis or continue doing case research.