NeuroprostheticsAlex Joyce

Prosthetics

An artificial device to replace or augment a missing or impaired part of the body

History of Prosthesis

1500 BC- Egyptians Wooden Toes

300 BC- Italians Artificial Leg

Table of Prosthesis Developments

Time Period Years Where? Who? What?

Ancient World ~ 1500 BC Egypt Egyptians Wooden Toe

Ancient World ~ 300 BC Italy ? Bronze/Wooden Leg

Second Punic War 218-210 BC Italy Romans Iron Hand

The Dark Ages 476-1000 ? ? Peg Legs/Hand Hooks

The Renaissance 1400-1800 Greece/Italy Greeks/RomansIron, Steel, Copper and

Wood Limbs

The Renaissance 1508 Germany von Berlichingen Manipulative Iron hands

The Renaissance Early 1500s Algeria Barbarossa Silver Arm

The Renaissance 1696 ? VerduynNonlocking below-knee

prosthesis

Modern Times 1858 ? Bly Anatomical Leg

Modern Times 1863 England Parmlee Aluminum Limbs

Neuroprosthetics

Also called neural prosthetics A series of devices that can

substitute motor, sensory or cognitive modality that might have been damaged as result of an injury or disease.

Target Reinnervation

Enables an amputee to control motorized prosthetic devices and to regain sensory feedback.

Target Reinnervation cont. Dr. Todd Kuiken Surgery makes arti

ficial arms easier to control

Target Reinnervation cont. Patient (Jesse

Sullivan) Bionic Hand

References

Norton, Kim M.. "A Brief History of Prosthetics."inMotion. Amputee Coalition, 05 2009. Web. 13 Nov 2012. <http://www.amputee-coalition.org/inmotion/nov_dec_07/history_prosthetics.html>.

Steenhuysen, Julie. "Surgery makes artificial arms easier to control." . Reuters, 10 2009. Web. 12 Nov 2012. <http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/10/us-surgery-arms-idUSTRE5197SO20090210>.

Yiu, Stephanie. "To Arms." . Northwestern University, n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2012. <http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2007/feature/kuiken.html>.