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Woman begins new life with bionic arm
Los Angeles Times-Washington Post

Washington: The first time Claudia Mitchell peeled a banana one-handed, she cried. It was several months after she lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident.

She used her feet to hold the banana and peeled it with her right hand. She felt like a monkey.

"It was not a good day," Mitchell, 26, recalled this week. "Although I accomplished the mission, emotionally it was something to be reckoned with."

Now, Mitchell can peel a banana in a less simian posture. All she has to do is place her prosthetic left arm next to the banana and think about grabbing it. The mechanical hand closes around the fruit and she’s ready to peel.

Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person - and first woman - to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone.

The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb.

Someday Mitchell hopes to upgrade to a prosthesis, still under development, that will allow her also to "feel" with an artificial hand. She is ready for it now.

Last summer, surgeons took the first step by rewiring the skin above her left breast so that when the area is stimulated by impulses from the bionic arm, the skin sends a message to the region of her brain that feels "hand".

Mitchell recently spent time at the Chicago hospital trying out a prototype with six motors, not just the three of her current prosthesis. It will theoretically allow her to reach for things over her head.

But even the first-generation device "has changed my life dramatically," she said. "I use it to help with cooking, for holding a laundry basket, for folding clothes - all daily tasks."

For Todd A. Kuiken, 46, a physician and biomedical engineer, this is the latest step in his 20-year effort to make a better artificial arm. Over that time, his laboratory has spent about $3 million (about Dh11 million) on research and development, with more than $2 million (about Dh7.35 million) provided by the National Institutes of Health.

The achievement with Mitchell is that her prosthesis works with her breast intact. With previous versions, surgeons removed some chest tissue so that electrodes in the arm could better detect twitches in the rewired chest muscles.

The arm makes use of several features of the human body that would be impossible to create from scratch. Luckily, a person still has them even after suffering an injury as grievous as the loss of an arm at the shoulder

Wow, thats just awesome. The nervous system is a tough nut to crack and to establish movement with thoughts through to a mechanical device is fantastic.

Its amazing what they can do nowadays

the part i find truly amazing is how they apparently figured out how to trick the brain into feeling sensation in the hand.

Maybe the brain hasn't let go completely of the missing arm, I've heard many times of amputees complaining of itches or pain in the limb that they have lost?

Originally posted by smoker4
Maybe the brain hasn't let go completely of the missing arm, I've heard many times of amputees complaining of itches or pain in the limb that they have lost?

phantom limb syndrome

i heard an interesting case where someone lost a hand, but felt constant pain coming from the empty void that was once his hand. apparently the last sensation to register in his brain was the feeling of his hand grasping so tightly that his fingernails dug into the flesh of his now nonexistant palm...anyway that feeling stayed with him.

what they did was have him put both his hand and the handless forearm into a mirrored box, giving the illusion that both his hands were there. he was then instructed to grasp both his hands tightly and then release the grasp. apparently it worked as his brain was tricked visually into feeling his phantom limb operate.

The kind of things they put in the paper these days!Well it is interesting what so ever!its Jackie btw had to rejoin this site.JM

its almost time for me to commit jibberish password suicide

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
The kind of things they put in the paper these days!Well it is interesting what so ever!its Jackie btw had to rejoin this site.JM

This has to be a hoax.

If not, the Darling of KMC has finally grown up. *sighs* wow, I feel like I helped to raise the child myself. I even helped in her dissertation on Internet Psychology.

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
The kind of things they put in the paper these days!Well it is interesting what so ever!its Jackie btw had to rejoin this site.JM Sock. Reported.

Oh, so that's whob? Yeah, kind of figured he would try to come back as JM. Who wouldn't want to?

Originally posted by Lumanix
Sock. Reported.

I am who I say I am.Go ahead and report me.Nice to see you guys too.jm

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
I am who I say I am.Go ahead and report me.Nice to see you guys too.jm

Definately a sock. The real JM wouldn't know what a sock was.

Originally posted by botankus
Definately a sock. The real JM wouldn't know what a sock was.

Actly I do.It is someone saying they are someone they are not.However I forgot my stupid password and had to use this name to start all over again.jm

Well thats just peachy, PVS posts up an interesting thread and it gets botched up on the first page.

There are also companies out there currently that can manufacture small exoframes to assist elderly folks in movement. Althought not as cool as this especially in how it relates to the nervous system and use of the device its neat to see where scinece takes us.

Sweet, another leap and bound for science and technology... Give it a few more decades and we will have 'Steve Austin' capability.

Originally posted by PVS
phantom limb syndrome

i heard an interesting case where someone lost a hand, but felt constant pain coming from the empty void that was once his hand. apparently the last sensation to register in his brain was the feeling of his hand grasping so tightly that his fingernails dug into the flesh of his now nonexistant palm...anyway that feeling stayed with him.

what they did was have him put both his hand and the handless forearm into a mirrored box, giving the illusion that both his hands were there. he was then instructed to grasp both his hands tightly and then release the grasp. apparently it worked as his brain was tricked visually into feeling his phantom limb operate.

According to harpercollins site 70% still feel various sensation, PLS demonstrates that the brain fights to restore normality after the body is mutilated through injury. We do not fully understand the origins of all human sensations.

Source


Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
The kind of things they put in the paper these days!Well it is interesting what so ever!its Jackie btw had to rejoin this site.JM

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
I am who I say I am.Go ahead and report me.Nice to see you guys too.jm ugonnagetbanned.lmix

Heard about it, great how they managed to pull that one off, science really does great things.

Originally posted by PVS
phantom limb syndrome

i heard an interesting case where someone lost a hand, but felt constant pain coming from the empty void that was once his hand. apparently the last sensation to register in his brain was the feeling of his hand grasping so tightly that his fingernails dug into the flesh of his now nonexistant palm...anyway that feeling stayed with him.

what they did was have him put both his hand and the handless forearm into a mirrored box, giving the illusion that both his hands were there. he was then instructed to grasp both his hands tightly and then release the grasp. apparently it worked as his brain was tricked visually into feeling his phantom limb operate.
What about the guy who had an orgasm in his missing foot?

By the way, Jackie Malfoy wouldn't respond to the thread like this. She would always say something and then never return.

Originally posted by PVS
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/09/15/10067917.html

Woman begins new life with bionic arm
Los Angeles Times-Washington Post

Washington: The first time Claudia Mitchell peeled a banana one-handed, she cried. It was several months after she lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident.

She used her feet to hold the banana and peeled it with her right hand. She felt like a monkey.

"It was not a good day," Mitchell, 26, recalled this week. "Although I accomplished the mission, emotionally it was something to be reckoned with."

Now, Mitchell can peel a banana in a less simian posture. All she has to do is place her prosthetic left arm next to the banana and think about grabbing it. The mechanical hand closes around the fruit and she’s ready to peel.

Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person - and first woman - to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone.

The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb.

Someday Mitchell hopes to upgrade to a prosthesis, still under development, that will allow her also to "feel" with an artificial hand. She is ready for it now.

Last summer, surgeons took the first step by rewiring the skin above her left breast so that when the area is stimulated by impulses from the bionic arm, the skin sends a message to the region of her brain that feels "hand".

Mitchell recently spent time at the Chicago hospital trying out a prototype with six motors, not just the three of her current prosthesis. It will theoretically allow her to reach for things over her head.

But even the first-generation device "has changed my life dramatically," she said. "I use it to help with cooking, for holding a laundry basket, for folding clothes - all daily tasks."

For Todd A. Kuiken, 46, a physician and biomedical engineer, this is the latest step in his 20-year effort to make a better artificial arm. Over that time, his laboratory has spent about $3 million (about Dh11 million) on research and development, with more than $2 million (about Dh7.35 million) provided by the National Institutes of Health.

The achievement with Mitchell is that her prosthesis works with her breast intact. With previous versions, surgeons removed some chest tissue so that electrodes in the arm could better detect twitches in the rewired chest muscles.

The arm makes use of several features of the human body that would be impossible to create from scratch. Luckily, a person still has them even after suffering an injury as grievous as the loss of an arm at the shoulder

That's cool, ey.

More power to her.

Originally posted by FeceMan
What about the guy who had an orgasm in his missing foot?

By the way, Jackie Malfoy wouldn't respond to the thread like this. She would always say something and then never return.

i think its her....saddly

its obviously her.man I cant believe you giys could be this ignorant to not see the obvious that this is her,btw,go ahead and be as ignorant as you want to report her,she never was banned and she's not socking.I knew jackie very well and she is not the type who would sock.just like she said,she lost her password so she had to reregister. just as long as she doesn post under jackie malfoy shes doing nothing wrong.

Originally posted by Mr Parker
its obviously her.man I cant believe you giys could be this ignorant to not see the obvious that this is her,btw,go ahead and be as ignorant as you want to report her,she never was banned and she's not socking.I knew jackie very well and she is not the type who would sock.just like she said,she lost her password so she had to reregister. just as long as she doesn post under jackie malfoy shes doing nothing wrong.

Thank you parker.I been reported and got it all figure out by storm.So I am fine.I don't leave after a debate,No worrys about that.THanks parker.jm

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
Thank you parker.I been reported and got it all figure out by storm.So I am fine.I don't leave after a debate,No worrys about that.THanks parker.jm roflruserious thanks.lmix

Originally posted by FeceMan
By the way, Jackie Malfoy wouldn't respond to the thread like this. She would always say something and then never return.

Agreed. Plus, in the last days before her demise, she was exclusively posting in the OTF. Also, did anyone figure out about the January 2003 register date? This is not her.

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
Thank you parker.I been reported and got it all figure out by storm.So I am fine.I don't leave after a debate,No worrys about that.THanks parker.jm

JM does not use complicated words like "debate." She never egged anyone on about abandoning a debate, for she was never involved in one b/c, as Fece said, she would always read the 1st post, ignore everything else in the thread, and then leave.

bout the BW>> weird but cool..

if its not JM, then its someone saddly obsessed with her to follow her same twisted pattern of speech...text...however i've dignified her enough...topic

Botankus your not listening.didnt you even bother to read her last post,its obviously her.geez.

Originally posted by Mr Parker
Botankus your not listening.didnt you even bother to read her last post,its obviously her.geez.

..and yet. No one cares Parker.

Perhaps one to many 'Man-spider/Kill Rami / Organic speeches has dulled your skills at convincing people your right when in-fact your wrong ?

Originally posted by Mr Parker
Botankus your not listening.didnt you even bother to read her last post,its obviously her.geez.
You're an idiot.

Go cry more about organics.

(I see that was already mentioned.)

*thinks..where we be 30 years from now with our speeding technology*

Originally posted by grey fox
..and yet. No one cares Parker.

Perhaps one to many 'Man-spider/Kill Rami / Organic speeches has dulled your skills at convincing people your right when in-fact your wrong ?

sorry dude I am right YOU and faceman are wrong and in denial on that.besides he ignored other peoples posts like jackies and PVS'S as well so your point is stupid like your points always are.

and this is relevant to the topic becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaause...........??

I just had multiple consecutive orgasms. Keep up the good work.

Originally posted by PVS
and this is relevant to the topic becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaause...........??

no its not,thats why it was an idiotic comment for him and feceman to be making,they cant get over an argument I had with them years ago.pretty sad huh?

Originally posted by PVS
and this is relevant to the topic becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaause...........??

Originally posted by FeceMan
Go cry more about organics.

I like organic food......cry

Originally posted by Mr Parker
no its not,thats why it was an idiotic comment for him and feceman to be making,they cant get over an argument I had with them years ago.pretty sad huh?

Sure , were sad. So how goes the pointless whining about a small detail in a comic book film with a pg13 rating hmmm ?

Originally posted by PVS
and this is relevant to the topic becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaause...........??

Can we move along now, and play nice?