Amputation

Amputation is “to cut off (all or a part of a limb or digit if the body) as by surgery” according to dictionary.com. Amputation has been an issue for all countries and places in general since the beginning. Amputation is also the subject and issue many of our soldiers are being faced with as well as the question asked after coming back with broken and shattered legs or any limbs that 9 time out of 10 an unfixable limb. Historically you would get something amputated if you had gangrene or something similar but most commonly found around the military. Back in that time getting an amputation was pretty much the last straw to your life with a leg, but with the new innovations of prosthetics some people are able to restore their walking, running and pretty much anything a normal leg can do.” “I think we’ll see late amputations continuing, the numbers will increase,” says Col. James Ficke, the orthopedic consultant to the Army Surgeon General, who has performed these operations at Brooke. The belief is that after your accident and the pain and hardships the everyday life will be challenged resulting in a person just ready to give up and say I want more equaling a new amputation patient. I believe that this innovation is wonderful and really worth while; it’s designed to basically predict your movements so that it’s like your actual brain sending the message. If you have ever known someone that has either lost an arm or leg you know the most difficult issue or wall to climb is the actual fact that they will no longer be able to use what they once had and that they will have to adapt a new style of life. Some people may have been the best basketball players in the neighborhood or maybe even the city, but with the missing limbs they can’t resume that path, unless they look into the new prosthetics. This innovations strikes me as an important finding and this technology can be used all around the world, And all it takes is lithium batteries to run.