posted on July 24, 2007 11:44:43 AM new
It is wonderful to see how far our medical community - doctors/inventors - have come in providing not only our vets, but the general public as well, with new limbs when they need them.
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Today: July 24, 2007 at 7:0:7 PDT
Iraq Vet Shows Off Bionic Hand
NEW YORK (AP) -
AP Video Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he's been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers.
The 27-year-old former soldier, who lost his left hand in 2005 during a patrol, is one of the first recipients of the i-LIMB.
"To have this movement, it's - it's amazing," Arredondo said Monday as he showed off the limb made by Scotland-based Touch Bionics. "It just gets me more excited about now, about the future."
The prosthetic hand is made of semi-translucent plastics. Five individual motors power the fingers, allowing the person to grasp round objects. The hand's gestures are made possible through electrode plates that detect electrical signals generated in the remaining muscles in the amputated limb.
The i-LIMB can be covered with flexible material to mimic the look of human skin, called cosmesis.
Arredondo, of San Antonio, likened the limb to the bionics in "Star Wars" and "Terminator." "My son, he goes nuts about it," he said.
posted on July 24, 2007 11:57:37 AM new
And today's Boston Globe also reports on another advance in medicine....help for ankles and feet.
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Researchers unveil computerized prosthesis
By Richard C. Lewis | July 24, 2007
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - U.S. researchers on Monday unveiled a computerized prosthetic ankle and foot that could change the lives of a growing number of amputees returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The prosthesis has a built-in power source and multiple springs to mimic a real human ankle, giving amputees more propulsion when walking, while reducing the limping and back pain commonly associated with existing prosthetic devices.
Garth Stewart, a 24-year-old U.S. soldier who lost his left leg below the knee in a roadside explosion in Iraq in April 2003, demonstrated the device at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, Rhode Island, and showed almost no sign of a limp.
"Once you get used to it," he said, "it feels like you have your leg back."
posted on July 24, 2007 12:06:55 PM new
OH ISN'T just so WONDERFUL, acording to linDUH, that all the maimed and mutilatated soldiers coming home will have the latest medical advances(IF they can GET them!)!
They wouldn't have NEEDED those things if there had been NO WAR.
posted on July 24, 2007 12:15:40 PM newUS army veterans sue government
By Peter Bowes
BBC News, Los Angeles
A coalition of US military veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is suing the US government.
The class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of thousands of veterans claims they have been denied disability pay and mental health treatment.
The legal case against the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) seeks widespread changes in the agency.
It says the DVA has deliberately cheated some traumatised war veterans out of benefits owed to them.
The case was filed on Monday in a federal court in San Francisco.
Cost 'incalculable'
Suing on behalf of hundreds of thousands of veterans, the coalition claims they have been let down on several fronts.
These include the provision of prompt disability benefits, additional staff to reduce waiting times for medical care and services to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
The coalition says the DVA worked with the Pentagon to mis-classify post-traumatic stress disorder claims as pre-existing personality disorders.
The cost to veterans, their families and the nation will be incalculable, it says, unless systematic and drastic measures are instituted immediately.
There has been no reaction to the legal action from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Several Congressional committees and a presidential commission are now studying ways to improve health care for war veterans.
posted on July 24, 2007 12:22:36 PM new
In your constant ignorance you fail to grasp that others who have NEVER even fought in any wars have also lost their limbs. And they too will benefit from these new advances in research.
And I'd bet that all soldiers who have lost limbs ARE very happy to see these advances.
You would never GRASP that their lives can be made much better because of this new technology since they DID want to serve our Nation and have suffered a loss of a limb.
No, you continue to show your contempt that THEY chose to serve our Nation...while you sit on here 24/7 whining about everything.
That's how YOU supposedly support out troops.....how sad and pathetic you are.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on July 24, 2007 12:26:20 PM new
Figures...kiara comes in with something TOTALLY unrelated to the new prosthetics advancements.
Always have to find any negative they can....no matter the actual topic.
typical liberals.... They just CANNOT find ANYTHING positive in life. NOTHING. They only focus on the war, the war, the war....and can't handle modern advances.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on July 24, 2007 12:31:03 PM new
Last time I mentioned anything about the soldiers learning to walk again with prosthetics you went completely nuts on me and threw a huge tantrum, Linda_K - so now you think it's a good thing only because you posted it?
What I posted about them suing the government is also related to their care. Now you may consider it negative but I consider it reality.
Deal with it.
Your imagination runs wild once again...as does your memory. LOL
You USE our troops for your anti-war agenda.
And that's in most every post you've ever made here.
Disrespect THEIR choices is the only thing you do.
Can't even admit these advance make their lives a lot better than they would have been. Nope IGNORE the GOOD NEWS. That's your MO...always has been.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on July 24, 2007 08:45:06 PM new
Gee etex, I thought the war with Germany was over...why do you still keep reliving it? Uh, we're at war in IRAQ now....do they speak German ??????
posted on July 24, 2007 11:52:36 PM new
More slobber and drool (Ye gods , she NEVER runs out!):
""Linda_K
posted on July 24, 2007 12:26:20 PM
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Figures...kiara comes in with something TOTALLY unrelated to the new prosthetics advancements.
Always have to find any negative they can....no matter the actual topic.""
Like you make a habit of doing. Like in the Rudy and his 1st, 2nd, and third Ladys thread.
posted on July 25, 2007 08:49:21 AM newOld saying and true: "Those who forget history, are forced to relive it".
Then perhaps you should start explaining to Bush what this saying means.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on July 25, 2007 08:52:38 AM newSo there is hope for the likes of Craw & Kiara, once a bionic brain is completed
Maybe this bionic brain will hlep you and Linda finally realize there is no such thing as a Canadian language and learn what gender actually means.
One thing I would like to know is if the both of you will still be sharing the bionic brain since you both share the same brain now.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
