Sentences with phrase «using prostheses»

«In the field of rehabilitation medicine, it could be used as a non-disturbing way for monitoring the rehab process of patients going through therapy or using prostheses.

During the 1980s, the artist also started using prostheses and mannequins in her photographs, for her 1989 Sex and 1992 Sex Pictures series.

I am learning about creative ways to help preserve as much limb function as possible using prostheses instead of full leg amputation as the only solution to trauma to distal extremities.

Conductive hearing loss can be treated through surgical reconstruction using prostheses made from stainless steel struts and ceramic cups.

«In general, using a prosthesis is an unnatural act that requires training, extra effort and can have a certain amount of awkwardness to it,» explains Douglas P. Murphy, MD; from Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center who is also an associate professor of PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead investigator (along with Ou Bai PhD from Florida International University) in a recent study that sought to establish the feasibility of manipulating a prosthetic knee with BCI.

«This unexpected finding suggests that using a prosthesis might fundamentally affect the way people perceive the world,» said Dr Gavin Buckingham of the Department of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter.

With the whole team watching, Max used the prosthesis to pick up a block.

Jürgen Klauke (b. 1943, Koln, Germany) explores the body in relation to the self and to the other in his Transformer series (1970 - 75), in which he appears dressed in red leather and uses prosthesis and phallic surrogates as part of his body.

Not exact matches

For me, I used to wear a prosthesis and be so afraid people would find out I was missing a leg,» he said.

Here's the relevant passage (but see the source for more on the research the committee looked at): «Breastfeeding outcomes may be affected by the use of feeding plates (which obturate some of the cleft and attempt to «normalize» the oral cavity for feeding) 46 or presurgical orthopedics (prosthesis to reposition the cleft segments prior to surgery).

Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

Studies have shown that users equipped with the lower - limb prostheses with powered knee and heel joints naturally walk faster with decreased hip effort while expending less energy than when they are using passive prostheses.

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.

«It's difficult to say at the moment,» says Diane Lazard, «but the idea is also to be able to spot in advance the people who will have a propensity for the written stimulus and to offer them active means for remaining with orality, particularly with auditory prostheses and speech therapy used much earlier than is currently practised.»

Rehm is now part of an IAAF working group studying prosthesis use in athletic competition, in hopes of competing in the 2017 IAAF World Championships.

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.

The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles.

The nanoparticles were 30 - nanometre - wide beads of surgical cobalt - chromium alloy, a material used in much larger pieces to make surgical implants such as hip prostheses.

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

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.

Cliff Megerian, MD, Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center performs a stapedectomy using new prosthesis.

«We can confidently say that this type of prosthesis is a viable choice and the new infection classification system, developed by the Osseointegrated Group of Australia, provides an effective tool for the use in patient selection as well as infection management.»

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

But the fit is poor, with less than 40 per cent of the prosthesis in contact with the bone, and the force surgeons use sometimes causes the femur to fracture.

University of Washington researcher Emanuel Todorov, who developed the hand pictured here with Zhe Xu of Yale University, says that using 3 - D - printed plastic parts minimizes the possibility of rejection — a common problem with hand transplants — while cutting costs to a fraction of those associated with similar articulated prostheses.

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

Also, use of a prosthesis can be difficult or cause problems under certain circumstances (i.e., stairs, ramps etc.).

The technology has been used successfully to solve a number of other medical prosthesis problems, including in the areas of joint replacement and facial reconstruction surgery.

The waste obtained from the beer brewing process contains the main chemical components found in bones (phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and silica), that after undergoing modification processes, this waste can be used as support or scaffold to promote bone regeneration for medical applications such as coating prosthesis or bone grafts.

They could then use the rerouted nerve signals to control a robotic limb, allowing a person to control their prosthesis with the same nerves they originally used to control their real limb.

The robot leg in question is a sophisticated prosthesis: it carries a number of mechanical sensors including gyroscopes and accelerometers, and can be trained to use the information from these sensors to perform certain walking styles.

While Aszmann's approach uses a grafted muscle to relay signals from the brain to a prosthesis, others are taking a more direct route, reading brain waves directly and using them to control the hand.

The prosthesis uses a built - in camera to take a picture of an object its wearer wants to grasp and then automatically picks one of four positions, including one similar to gripping a cup and one similar to grabbing a TV remote.

A Bluetooth wireless protocol developed by Apple last year lets the prostheses connect directly to Apple devices, streaming audio and data while using a fraction of the power consumption of conventional Bluetooth.

«The material could also be used for other orthopedic applications, such as orthopedic shoes or prostheses,» says Klaus.

Powered by a rechargeable battery, the robotic ankle propels users forward using sensors and tendonlike springs, relieving the hip of having to draw the leg forward as most prostheses require.

Alexandria Aguila - Velez of Kennesaw, Georgia, who adopted Zion from China, recalls attempts by a surgeon to fashion Spider - Man prostheses for the young child to use.

Helena Bonham Carter is also good, if under - used, as a one - legged madam who shoots bullets from an ivory prosthesis.

Using the potentials of microsystem technology, neural prostheses to restore vision become

Radiographs show abnormalities in the hip joint and are used for choosing the proper sized prosthesis but they are only part of the picture.

Some surgeons place hip prostheses that use no bone cement.

The prostheses are generally held in place using special bone cement.

There is an increase in the use of a tracheal prosthesis to replace the collapsed section.

An incident in which the use or operation of an automobile directly causes an impairment or directly causes damage to any prescription eyewear, denture, hearing aid, prosthesis or other medical or dental device.

Rather, the statute applies equally to all persons, whether they wear prostheses or not, who use anything other than a body part to commit an assault.

«accident» means an incident in which the use or operation of an automobile directly causes an impairment or directly causes damage to any prescription eyewear, denture, hearing aid, prosthesis or other medical or dental device; («accident»)[emphasis added]

«accident» means an incident in which the use or operation of an automobile directly causes an impairment or directly causes damage to any prescription eyewear, denture, hearing aid, prosthesis or other medical or dental device; («accident»)

There are several treatment options that can be used to lessen the psychological effects of disfigurement, including reconstructive surgery, cosmetic surgery, and prosthesis.

I wonder, too, whether the fact that, as Powers calls it, the «digital prosthesis» that connects a writer with the computer is a QUERTY keyboard acts as a barrier to lawyers» use of computers generally, because if one learns to dictate, one has less incentive to learn to touch type.

Their daily job duties include applying porcelain or acrylic paste over metal frameworks, using tools like brushes and spatulas, placing dentures in furnace to harden, making adjustments until dentures conform to specifications, and polishing dental prostheses.