In Austria three men have had their lives transformed by a medical prowess. The journal Lancet reports the case of patients operated on between 2011 and 2014, which have a bionic hand. These people avaint lost the use of their membership for several years, and their install this artificial hand, we had to be amputated. One of the most difficult parts of the program, according to the teacher who made them.
"The decision to part with his own hand is not easy. Why? because the patient still just his hand. But these people have lived without using it for ten, fifteen years, and they know what it means to live without hand. "
These doctors believe that their technique is less risky than hand transplant performed since 1997, the risk of rejection is eliminated. Milorad Marinkovic lost the use of his arm in a motorcycle accident when he was young.
"It was entirely new. I was not able to catch anything since 2001 with the right hand. And suddenly, everything works perfectly. I feel good with my new hand, it has become a part of me and I could not live without. "
The hand is equipped with sensors that respond to the electrical pulses supplied by the muscles. The muscles taken from patients legs, were grafted into the forearm.
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