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In the article, 3 Austrian patients were fitted with a prosthetic lower arm and hand that responds to signals from the brain. Effectively making it controlled the same way you control your real hand, only not as accurate. Unlike previous procedures similar to this one, these patients had nerve damage and could not feel or use their limbs. They then had them amputated and replaced with the prosthetic, as opposed to already missing the limb. All have shown improvement.
I find it interesting that these patients made the choice to have a limb amputated, even though an amputation was not necessary. I wonder if in the future more people, even those whose arms are working normally, will replace their body parts with prosthetics if the technology makes them superior to our normal limbs. That is probably a long way away for limbs, but other parts of the body could be easier to recreate.
1) Do you agree or disagree with amputating a limb to replace it with a prosthetic?
2) Do you think prosthetics will one day get on the same level as a real limb, or even superior?
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