Talk:Prosthesis

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Since time immemorial, prostheses were created by army workshops for the soldiers who lost their limbs in battle. Thus ever since prosthetics seems to be associated with artificial extremeties like the artificial leg and hand, which are functional. Today, many more products can be included. Among those are the life like restorations which serve as a camouflage for those disfigured by accidents, disease, or birth defects.

- What is the difference with orthosis and orthopedic?

What about cognitive prosthetics and neuro-prosthetics? --NeuronExMachina 02:27, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Request for article about sensory prosthetics: Wired Magazine article. Maybe also linked to other computer input/output devices?

Prosthetics should be linked to a "medical technology" category? Thats how I was trying to look it up.

-- Is there an article about implanted microchips? Should they be considered a type of prosthesis ?

"The night club offers ... a syringe-injected [ RFID ] microchip implanted in their upper arms that ... acts as a debit account from which they can pay for drinks." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3697940.stm

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 * How are prosthesis attached? Many are held on or suspended by straps or sleeves. These are the most basic forms of suspension. Above knee (transfemoral) or below knee (transtibial) use many other forms such as expulsion valves in which the air inside the socket is evacuated and suspension results from the pressure differential in the prosthesis. Other forms are pin systems in which a sleeve placed over the residual limb has an insert in the distal end to receive a smooth or notched pin. This pin is inserted into a locking device manufactured in the prosthesis itself.
 * History of prosthesis
 * Better description of prosthesis
 * etc.

There is also room to expand on the importance of other cultural and countries that played a role in prosthetic design in the early days. This article just talks about the American view of prosthetic design  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lshersh (talk • contribs) 15:19, 23 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree! :) E Pluribus Anthony 20:22, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Please never expand this article. If you do the bottom will stop saying "This medical equipment article is a stub". Nyuk nyuk nyuk! YAYitsAndrew 14:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

The image of the "knee prosthesis" shows an endoprosthesis, part of an artificial knee joint to be used in knee replacement surgery. Since there is no mention of internal prostheses in the article, the image is a bit out of place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.89.44.144 (talk) 18:49, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Circular link
The page Surgical prosthetics is a redirect back to Prosthesis, and should be removed or a new page Surgical prosthetics should be added.

Agreed, either there needs to be a paragraph added to this page, or there should be another one for Surgical prosthesis. The current definition for the "medicine use" is incomplete. --Lisa4edit (talk) 11:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Broken Link
Under "External Links", for "Prosthetics History", link to http://www.nupoc.northwestern.edu/prosHistory.shtml is broken. It leads to DNS Error page. 4.12.07, 3:50 pm EDT. 64.108.72.162 19:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

The history of it
I know they used wood back then but I think we should add what other materials that could've been used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.166.140.94 (talk) 16:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Seriously, everyone. This article desperately needs a history section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.173.234 (talk) 03:28, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

that it's not true —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.162.204.42 (talk) 02:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * There really needs to be more to the history section, it's so tiny and (frankly) pathetic. What about the replacement teeth they've found in Roman tombs? I'd add to it if I only knew what my sources were. Saying "I've seen pictures!" doesn't seem like quite enough. 97.104.210.67 (talk) 14:49, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, I've added Roman teeth prostheses. --Tovarich1917 (talk) 13:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

merge with artificial limb
Undid merge with artificial limb for three reasons. 1) No discussion has taken place on talk page 2) Shouldn't prosthesis redirect to the disambiguity page? 3) Not all prosthesis (per article) are limbs. DCwom (talk) 18:10, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

freshly merged
I have re-merged not only "artificial limb" but also several other prosthetics articles over into this article. This is as it should be, in my opinion. All that remains is for duplicate wording (and there is a LOT of it) to be excised and other maintenance work to be done. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 16:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Upper extremity prosthetics
How about integrating a section "Upper extremity prosthetics" ? Also, mention the Carnes arm, which is "body-powered", see http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/24/shop-work-with-a-carnes-artificial-arm/, http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/02/13/55201_tasmania-news.html

91.182.235.144 (talk) 10:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

example of oldest Prosthethics
Like the roman capua leg or egyptian prosthetics? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.70.191.78 (talk) 12:02, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Advertorial content
Much of the material in the article consists of paragraphs of praise for various companies, it needs to be cleaned up to comply with WP:NPOV. Roger (talk) 11:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Pneumatic powered ankle-foot exoskeleton
Perhaps Philippe Malcolm's pneumatic powered ankle-foot exoskeleton can be breifly mentioned in the article ? See http://www.hightechsystems.nl/programma/programma-2013/philippe-malcolm.html KVDP (talk) 11:37, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Photo removed
I have removed this photo as the link is no more valid.

--Ashashyou (talk) 08:54, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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Robotic legs
Perhaps mention TU Delft March (http://projectmarch.nl/nl/ ) ?

Also, perhaps mention the Powered Exoskeleton Race (http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/the-disciplines/powered-exoskeleton-race/exoskeleton-teams.html ) as well ? KVDP (talk) 08:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Special-purpose arms ?
Perhaps we should mention the VioArm too ? It was made by the team of Yasser Alhindi from George Mason University for Isabella Nicola Cabrera. See here. It also allows to attach other extensions for a variety of other purposes. KVDP (talk) 07:57, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Changes (adding/editing)-12.11.2017
Aimingsourgrape (talk) 15:40, 11 December 2017 (UTC)Adding information to the socket design for the lower extremities and robotic legs. Deleting the one former sentence in robotic legs section since the 'ReWalk' is the example of exoskeleton, and not prosthesis.

Medicalmakers.org prosthetic hand
Perhaps we can mention the prosthetic hand made by medicalmakers.org ? See here KVDP (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Biochip ?
Appearantly, biochips are sometimes used to connect a prosthesis to the patient's nerves. See here. I'm not sure whether this biochip is used with implants connected via osseointegration. If so, perhaps mention it in that section. KVDP (talk) 11:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

University of Utah's Progress
Recently, I found an article where a group of researchers at the University of Utah helped upgrade a normal robotic prosthetic arm to be able to feel things through the arm. The main reason why I felt like I should add this in is that there is a section based on prosthetics that has feedback mechanisms within the prosthetic, however the last entry was put in during 2013. The article that I found recently was made in July 2019. The main difference from what I've read is that the 2013 arm and the one from 2019 are that the new arm used an already existing prosthetic as a base, meaning that if a user wanted to they wouldn't need to order a new arm from Switzerland/Italy just to feel through the prosthetic.

Here's the link to the full article =>

Non-limb-protheses?
There is no section about artificial lenses, heart valves, cochlear implants etc. Are those not protheses, too? Should there be a section of "things of the human body which can be artificially replaced (at least to some degree)"? Is a wig a prothesis? For me, the article as it is appears to be "limb-centristic". --78.49.62.49 (talk) 15:33, 8 August 2021 (UTC)


 * There's also nothing about cosmetic prosthetics such as breast, chin, cheek, etc, implants. No mention of dentures and related prostheses either. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:13, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Possible vandalism
I was reading the article when I came across this sentence. Fields won a gold medal in the 100 meters with a time of 12.15 seconds at the Endeavor Games in Edmond, OK. Is this possible vandalism or something related to the topic. In the section prosthetic enhancement Tescomealdeal1 (talk) 11:18, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

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Optical Wavelength Addressing from and to Neural Fibres via LWG
Prismatic Split of Colours is well known, and braggfilters are right next, minimal changes of electricity are able to stimulate the crystal to change its bragg symmetry, which reduces a signal light, and light signal are not that impressed by outer magnetic field as myo electrodes are. This is the part for the Muscle Stimulation. Counterward Light filtered by bragg can give feed to the pressure, tactility and heat neurofibres over micro photovoltages fields in the light waveguide. Mention that there is no need for electronic ICs in this theoretical concept. Only a good wide spectrum light source is needed, like stimulated SulphurArgon mix in an microwave caging. Braggfilters are defined while hot and getting ultrasonics in the respective Wavelenght, what is the symmetry between Light and Sound.

Since i have an treatable social allergia caused by monotheistic contact as the polytheistic heather i'am, i cannot convince anybody to do research about, so i guess there is nothing to earn for me with that idea. Not that is a very precise link to neurons and allow a human machine interface, yeah sh.. it is. Future of warfare begins with amputated heros. A Feast on the Remains. 91.41.243.181 (talk) 22:15, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Disadvantages of Body-Powered Artificial Hands and Myoelectric Artificial Hands
Myoelectric Artificial Hands are expensive, requires regular maintenance, sensitive to sweat and moisture affecting sensor performance and Body-Powered Artificial Hands have limitedrange of motion due to potential derailment of the cable system.https://inwhention.blogspot.com/2024/06/how-to-increase-efficiency-of.html also view the https://iitk.ac.in/ipr/index.php/technologies-available-for-licensing