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prosthesis

By Vargas alejandra
  • 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

    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

    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

    Centuries XVII-XIX
    Dubois parmlee: prosthesis with a sucking
    lace, polycentric knee, and a multi-articulated foot.

  • Centuries XVII-XIX

    Centuries XVII-XIX
    Gustav Hermann: affirmed that the use of aluminium instead of steel in order to be lighter and functional.

  • Modern Age

    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

    opinion
    1. Many people can have a different new life with prosthesis
    2. Every year people create new materials to improve it
    3. People can attend to differen activities

  • Glossary

    Glossary
    1. disable: (make disabled)
    2. handicap: dated (disability)
    3. prosthesis: an artificial device to replace or augment a missing or impaired part of the body

  • References

    1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prosthesis
    2. 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:
    3. http://www.amputee-coalition.org/spanish/inmotion/nov_dec_07/history_prosthetics.x20075.pdf