Talk:Prosthesis

message: Since time immemorial, prostheses were created by army workshops for the soldiers who lost their limbs in battle. Thus ever since prosthetics seems to be associated with artificial extremeties like the artificial leg and hand, which are functional. 
Today, many more products can be included. Among those are the life like restorations which serve as a camouflage for those disfigured by accidents, disease, or birth defects.
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What is the difference with orthosis and orthopedic?
What about cognitive prosthetics and neuro-prosthetics? --NeuronExMachina 02:27, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article has room for expansion.
*How are prosthesis attached? Many are held on or suspended by straps or sleeves. These are the most basic forms of suspension. Above knee (transfemoral) or below knee (transtibial) use many other forms such as expulsion valves in which the air inside the socket is evacuated and suspension results from the pressure differential in the prosthesis. Other forms are pin systems in which a sleeve placed over the residual limb has an insert in the distal end to receive a smooth or notched pin. This pin is inserted into a locking device manufactured in the prosthesis itself.
*History of prosthesis
*Better description of prosthesis
*etc.
There is also room to expand on the importance of other cultural and countries that played a role in prosthetic design in the early days. This article just talks about the American view of prosthetic design   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lshersh (talk • contribs) 15:19, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree! :) E Pluribus Anthony 20:22, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand

message: The page Surgical prosthetics is a redirect back to Prosthesis, and should be removed or a new page Surgical prosthetics should be added.
Agreed, either there needs to be a paragraph added to this page, or there should be another one for Surgical prosthesis. The current definition for the "medicine use" is incomplete. --Lisa4edit (talk) 11:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circular link 

message: Under "External Links", for "Prosthetics History", link to http://www.nupoc.northwestern.edu/prosHistory.shtml is broken. It leads to DNS Error page. 4.12.07, 3:50 pm EDT. 64.108.72.162 19:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Link 

message: I know they used wood back then but I think we should add what other materials that could've been used.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.166.140.94 (talk) 16:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There really needs to be more to the history section, it's so tiny and (frankly) pathetic. What about the replacement teeth they've found in Roman tombs? I'd add to it if I only knew what my sources were. Saying "I've seen pictures!" doesn't seem like quite enough. 97.104.210.67 (talk) 14:49, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the suggestion, I've added Roman teeth prostheses. --Tovarich1917 (talk) 13:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The history of it 

message: Undid merge with artificial limb for three reasons.
1) No discussion has taken place on talk page
2) Shouldn't prosthesis redirect to the disambiguity page?
3) Not all prosthesis (per article) are limbs.
DCwom (talk) 18:10, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge with artificial limb 

message: I have re-merged not only "artificial limb" but also several other prosthetics articles over into this article. This is as it should be, in my opinion. All that remains is for duplicate wording (and there is a LOT of it) to be excised and other maintenance work to be done. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 16:53, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  freshly merged 

message: How about integrating a section "Upper extremity prosthetics" ? Also, mention the Carnes arm, which is "body-powered", see http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/24/shop-work-with-a-carnes-artificial-arm/ , http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/02/13/55201_tasmania-news.html
91.182.235.144 (talk) 10:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Upper extremity prosthetics

message: Like the roman capua leg or egyptian prosthetics?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.70.191.78 (talk) 12:02, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  example of oldest Prosthethics 

message: Much of the material in the article consists of paragraphs of praise for various companies, it needs to be cleaned up to comply with WP:NPOV. Roger (talk) 11:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertorial content 

message: Perhaps Philippe Malcolm's pneumatic powered ankle-foot exoskeleton can be breifly mentioned in the article ? See http://www.hightechsystems.nl/programma/programma-2013/philippe-malcolm.html
KVDP (talk) 11:37, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Pneumatic powered ankle-foot exoskeleton

message: I have removed this photo as the link is no more valid.
--Ashashyou (talk) 08:54, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo removed

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Perhaps mention TU Delft March (http://projectmarch.nl/nl/ ) ?
Also, perhaps mention the Powered Exoskeleton Race (http://www.cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/the-disciplines/powered-exoskeleton-race/exoskeleton-teams.html ) as well ?
KVDP (talk) 08:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Robotic legs

message: Perhaps we should mention the VioArm too ?
It was made by the team of Yasser Alhindi from George Mason University for Isabella Nicola Cabrera. 
See here. It also allows to attach other extensions for a variety of other purposes.
KVDP (talk) 07:57, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Special-purpose arms ?

message: Aimingsourgrape (talk) 15:40, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes (adding/editing)-12.11.2017 

message: Perhaps we can mention the prosthetic hand made by medicalmakers.org ? See here
KVDP (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Medicalmakers.org prosthetic hand

message: Appearantly, biochips are sometimes used to connect a prosthesis to the patient's nerves. See
here. I'm not sure whether this biochip is used with implants connected via osseointegration. If so, perhaps mention it in that section.
KVDP (talk) 11:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Biochip ?

message: There is no section about artificial lenses, heart valves, cochlear implants etc. Are those not protheses, too? Should there be a section of "things of the human body which can be artificially replaced (at least to some degree)"? Is a wig a prothesis? For me, the article as it is appears to be "limb-centristic". --78.49.62.49 (talk) 15:33, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There's also nothing about cosmetic prosthetics such as breast, chin, cheek, etc, implants. No mention of dentures and related prostheses either. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:13, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-limb-protheses? 

message: I was reading the article when I came across this sentence.  Fields won a gold medal in the 100 meters with a time of 12.15 seconds at the Endeavor Games in Edmond, OK. Is this possible vandalism or something related to the topic. In the section prosthetic enhancement  Tescomealdeal1 (talk) 11:18, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible vandalism  

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