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Period: 476 BCE to 1 BCE
Middle Age
Few advances, follow by the wooden leg and handpiece hook. Salesman, arm manufacturers design and create them. -
424 BCE
424- 1 b.c
In capua Italy was descovered the leg in 1858 (300 BC) materials: silver, bronze-wooden nucleus. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance
Taking into account all greek and roman discoveries, come back the prosthetic history.
There were designed with silver, steel, copper and Wood. -
Jan 1, 1508
1500 D.C
Silver hands set into the hands, its movement was determined to certain reasing mechanisms and springs-loaded, suspender band belt -
Period: Jan 1, 1529 to Jan 1, 1536
1500 D.C
Ambroise Paré a frech militar surgeon considered the amputation and design father of modern prosthetic. -
Centuries XVII-XIX
Peter Verduyn created the first prosthesis under the knee without locked mechanism. -
Centuries XVII-XIX
Jammes Potts: wooden prosthesis with fitting, articulation knee and articular foot controlled by tendons of cat gut. (knee and ancle) “selpho leg”. -
Centuries XVII-XIX
Sir James Syme: discovered a new ancle amputation method, the person only requires a foot prosthesis. -
6. Centuries XVII-XIX
Benjamin Palmer: he improved Selpho´s, he added a spring, its appearance is softer, and the hidden tendons to pretend a natural movements. -
Centuries XVII-XIX
Dubois parmlee: prosthesis with a sucking
lace, polycentric knee, and a multi-articulated foot. -
Centuries XVII-XIX
Gustav Hermann: affirmed that the use of aluminium instead of steel in order to be lighter and functional. -
Modern Age
It´s created the American orthoprosthesis association (AOPA)
- Nowadays it´s created with plastic, aluminiun and compound materials in order to be more functional
- They are designed to the right size of each patient. -
importance
Prosthesis can help many people, in order to offer them a nice quality of life. -
opinion
- Many people can have a different new life with prosthesis
- Every year people create new materials to improve it
- People can attend to differen activities
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Glossary
- disable: (make disabled)
- handicap: dated (disability)
- prosthesis: an artificial device to replace or augment a missing or impaired part of the body
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References
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prosthesis
- https://www.google.com.co/search?q=benjamin+palmer+selpho&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK5-Lrnd_SAhVLQCYKHXcaBy8Q_AUIBygC&biw=673&bih=618#tbm=isch&q=protesis+de+piernas+deportivas&*&imgrc=QqIjJouJXv-18M:
- http://www.amputee-coalition.org/spanish/inmotion/nov_dec_07/history_prosthetics.x20075.pdf