Cook would, with less than two weeks training, begin to make artificial limbs for soldiers that had lost an arm or a leg.
He saw artificial limbs as the tools to a certain freedom.
He explains how new technology can make some products, like artificial limbs, lighter.
He had lost $400,000 on a plan to market a material to cover artificial limbs.
In the future, artificial limbs could be built with sensors on fingertips or other important areas.
Evidently there was war and pain, for why else would the doctor be so interested in making artificial limbs?
Every $300 raised is used to purchase an artificial limb for refugees.
"Today, 6 of every 10 patients have artificial limbs that use composite materials."
They have thought he might work at a factory that makes artificial limbs.
When you're well again, and fitted with artificial limbs, take a look around.
This is truly exciting research, and might open the door to the next generation of prosthetic limbs.
Lapper is quite independent and will not wear prosthetic limbs.
Do you want to know how prosthetic limbs are made?
But first, read the next page to take a look into the past and find out how prosthetic limbs have evolved throughout history.
The process is completed within six days; every day 150 to 300 people acquire new prosthetic limbs.
The doctor told him prosthetic limbs would cost $10,000.
He walks with the use of prosthetic limbs and a crutch.
She was fitted with a prosthetic limb at eighteen months.
Each prosthetic limb is custom-made to fit the individual needs of the specific animal.
Furthermore, it provides a better position for a prosthetic limb.
