Prosthetics

Prosthetic devices simulating limbs attached to a person’s body date back to thousands of years ago. Obviously, you will never be able to compare the efficiency a limb that was created two thousand years ago with a modern, present-day limb. Anyways, the purpose of a prosthetic device being attached to your body is to replace a limb of your body. Most of the times, these limbs were cut, injured, or amputated. Even though the prosthetic device would only work as a small support, scientists today are working harder and harder to develop a prosthetic device that is able to perform the same functions as the natural limb. As a matter of fact, artificial limbs are very advanced today both in the way they look and the functions they perform.
There is controversy to which was the first prosthesis made in the history of humans. Myths recall old warriors who lost a limb during battle. After replacing their lost limb with an artificial one, the warriors went back to war. These myths portrayed the warriors as heroes who never gave up. Going back to war with a limb that doesn’t have any movement probably requires some guts! Indeed all these myths, the idea of prostheses has been around for a long time now.
The late 1500s was the time when the idea of amputation and artificial prostheses were introduced to the world. A French military doctor, Ambroise Pare, contributed to the technology involved with prosthetics, especially at the times. He invented a hinged mechanical hand as well as prosthetic legs that featured several advances. Among these were locking knees and specialized attachment harnesses. In actuality, the basis of modern day prosthesis is that Pare discovered 500 years ago. Later on that same century in 1690, a Dutch surgeon, Pieter Verduyn, developed a lower leg prosthesis with specialized hinges and a leather cuff for improved attachment to the boy. (Clements, 2014) Prostheses’ development has undergone and is still undergoing research today. As mentioned