#prosthetics

[no-hands]

#amputee #arm amputee #dbe amputee #prosthetics #prosthetic arms

[dozydawn]

“Albina Ysmailova lightens up any chess tournament with her presence. This passionate player has a chess-themed prosthetic hand that she made herself.”

Photographed by David Llada.

#from 2019 when she was 10 #(quote from llada’s twitter) #albina ysmailova #chess #prosthetics #david llada #1k

[rounderhouse]

“cyberpunk future where you need to make payments on your cybernetics or they get repo’d” is good, but doesn’t go far enough. consider cyberpunk future where the terms of service restrict how you can use your augments and implants — your prosthetic hands physically quake and lock up if you try to use them for things your medical company deems “a risk factor” (which somehow includes protesting the very same biomedical conglomerate), and your eyes automatically blur information that tells you how to improve or update augments yourself. but even surrounded by this much greed, widespread underground communities exist of people helping one another jailbreak their titanium bodies, recapturing the autonomy corporations have methodically stripped away from them.

#microfiction #rounderwords #writing #scifi #prosthetics

[katy-l-wood]

Every few years I remember that the Alternative Limb Project exists and get blown away once more by their work.

This one is half hyper-realistic, and half swapable sections based on the woman's personality, moods, and spirituality.

This one comes with a DRONE and has control panels in the wrist and forearm, as well as a flashlight and laser pointer.

This one is older, from 2012, but I still love it. Shiny shiny.

This one has a WORKING CUCKOO CLOCK IN THE KNEE. A WORKING. CUCKOO CLOCK.

Another older one, this one with realistic snake.

This is a two part one, dedicated to railway workers/builders/passengers who lost limbs. The limbs can be hooked together to allow the little train to travel between them.

This one is a literal swiss army knife arm, full of survival supplies.

Just. GAH. They are all so neat.

The project was started by Sophie de Oliveira Barata and you really have to check out her work: https://thealternativelimbproject.com/

#Prosthetics #Limb Loss #Body Horror #Just in case #Mostly for the snake one

[zegalba]

Transparent Plant Totem Prosthesis by YVMIN, created for Xiao Yang (2021)

#YVMIN #Xiao Yang #art #futurism #prosthetics #prosthetic leg #transparent #accessories #fashion #plant totem #prosthesis #2021

[kasienda]

My three year old daughter came home with a Minnie Mouse figurine, distraught. The plastic toy was missing an arm, and my daughter insisted she couldn’t play with it because it was broken.

I told her that she could still play with it! That some people were born without an arm or that they might get hurt and lose an arm, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t still play or have fun. I explained that some people might get a prosthetic or just have a stub. And she asked what a prosthetic was. I showed her a picture and she was like, “oh! A robot arm!”

When my husband came home, she thrust the toy at him and told him, “Minnie needs a robot arm.”

He was very confused, but he prints and paints miniatures from various table top games. My daughter refers to them as “daddy’s statues.” She knew he could help Minnie. So he dutifully printed her out a robot arm from a warhammer 40k model on our 3d printer, and then they painted it pink and purple together.

All of this to say, look at Minnie Mouse and her new prosthetic!!

[Image description: three photos of the abovementioned Minnie Mouse figurine. One hand is the classic giant gloved  Minnie Mouse hand: the other is a robot arm, palm upraised toward the viewer, clumsily painted the same bubblegum pink as the rest of the figurine. /end ID]

Image ID courtesy of @wanderingthunderstorm

Here’s a post about how to create smoother miniatures for the anon. It’s about your printer. (Includes more typical examples of my husband’s miniature painting).

#Minnie mouse #warhammer 40k #prosthetics #for toys #Minnie needs a robot arm #my daughter said so #teaching my kids about disabilities #physical disabilities #cute story about a kid

[frecklenog]

as someone with a special interest in prosthetics, i absolutely love that finn is shown with multiple different prostheses throughout fionna and cake. main finn (who has a transhumeral amputation) has an everyday arm with three fingers (like the one he had in at, though it also has exposed sensor wires), an adventuring arm with a claw hand and a socket that covers and protects his residual limb (coupled with a spaulder, though that might be a more general thing), and an older arm that seems to have been a mix of the two, though with a more limited hinge joint at the elbow as opposed to what appears to be some sort of ball-and-socket-adjacent elbow. (i wonder how those work exactly… maybe they’re magnetic? or the everyday arm might have a hinge that connects to a pivot/swivel joint…)

but it’s not even limited to our main boy, because farmworld finn (who has a shoulder disarticulation) also has multiple arm attachments for various occasions!! he uses the classic claw/axe double feature for most of the episode, but the sword arm he was given by choose bruce hangs on his wall (pretty busted up and still connected to the humeral portion, indicating that he continued to use it and possibly still does from time to time), and of course the flamethrower!! (i wonder if he made it himself…)

#fionna and cake #finn mertens #finn the human #adventure time #fionna and cake spoilers #fac spoilers #f&c spoilers #farmworld finn #shut up emrys #prosthetics #[is autistic]

[2001hz]

Sophie de Oliveira Barata: ' The Alternative Limb Project' (2014)

#sophie de oliveira barata #the alternative limb project #prosthetics #design #2014

[neroholik]

Neil from the excellent fanfic 100 Days. Ohhhh you would know how much I love prosthetics. And Neil 🥹❤‍🩹

#aftg fanart #aftg #art #all for the game #neil josten #prosthetics #все ради игры #нил джостен #фанарт #арт

[cy-cyborg]

Tips for wring amputees: its ok if your amputee can't repair their own prosthetics

There's a trope in fiction for amputees to always be these mechanical geniuses who can make and repair their own prosthetics, endlessly tinkering away and improving them. This isn't a particularly trope, and i dont think its harmful or anything, but in reality, prosthetics are REALLY, REALLY complicated, and a lot of amputees cant do their own repairs. And thats ok. Like, prosthetic creation and repair is way, way harder than I think people expect. Well outside the skillset of your standard mechanic, handy man or craftsperson.

People who make and repair prosthetics are called prosthetists. To become a prosthetist, most countries around the world today require you to have completed a bachelor's degree in specifically in prosthetics and orthotics, which covers not only how to make a prosthetics (and orthodics) but a great deal of medical knowledge, physics, how different forces impact "non-standard" bodies, the additional biological wear-and-tear that comes with being an amputee and so much more. This will qualify you to do the job of fitting/making the prosthetic socket (the part that attaches to your body) and putting premade components together to make a functioning device. On top of this, many prosthetists are also expected to have artistic skills, sewing skills, good physical strength and dexterity, IT skills, and more recently, knowledge of 3D modelling and printing.

You want to make all the high-tech components the prosthetists put together to make the full prosthetic? The requirements for that vary country to country, but most will require at least some level study in the field of engineering and/or medicine, on top of what was already required for the prosthetics course.

The reason for all this is because even "basic" prosthetics are extremely finicky, and messing up one thing will have a domino effect on the rest of the body, especially in more complicated prosthetics. It can also result in people getting severally injured if anything is even slightly off. many leg amputees for example end up with spinal issues due to extremely minor issues with their prosthetic that weren't caught until years later, and by then the damage had been done.

Some amputees do learn to do basic repairs. This is most common in places like the US, where a visit to the prosthetist can cost hundred to thousands of dollars (depending on your insurance), but it's also quite common in rural parts of countries like Australia, where cost isn't an issue but access is due to vast distances between major cities. I was personally in this category; as a kid, my nearest prosthetist was 6 hours away. My prosthetist was able to teach my dad, who later taught me, how to do some of the simple repairs, but we still needed to go in every few weeks for the more complex stuff (Kids prosthetic need more adjusting than adults because they're still growing. Also I was rough on my prosthetics and broke them a lot lol).

But even after being taught how to do repairs and having my prosthetics for 20+ years, I only ever did these sorts of repairs to my below-knee prosthetic. I will not do any repairs of any kind to my above knee leg, which is much more technologically complex. Every time I tried, I made it worse to the point where the leg was unusable. I just leave those repairs to the guy who went to university to learn how to do it, and sometimes even he needs to send it off to someone with even more specialist knowledge when it's really badly messed up lol. Last time that happened Australia post lost the package. Not really relevant to this post, I just find the idea of it being sent to the wrong place by accident hilarious, it was one of my more realistic legs too so someone probably had a heart attack when they opened that package lmao.

Anyway, back on track lol.

This isn't even touching on the fact that on some more advanced prosthetics, many features are actually locked behind a security barrier only prosthetists can access. My prosthetic knee has an app on my phone I can pair it to, that allows me to change certain settings and swap between certain modes for different activities that tell the leg to change its behaviour depending on what I'm doing (e.g. a mode for running, a mode for cycling etc). but most of the more in-depth settings I can't access, only my prosthetist can, and he can only gain access to those settings with a security key given to him by the manufacturing company that requires him to provide proof of his credentials to receive it. I don't really agree with this btw, something about being locked out of my own leg's settings makes me feel a bit of an ick, but it's set up like this because people used to be able to access these settings and they would mess with things to the point their leg was virtually unusable. Because altering one setting had a domino effect on all the others, and a lot of folks weren't really paying attention to what they were messing with, all their prosthetists could do was factory reset the whole leg, which causes some issues too. Prosthetic arms are often similarly complex, as I understand it and have similar security barriers in place for more advanced arms. I don't know for sure though, so take that with a grain of salt.

All this to say these are incredibly delicate, finicky and complex pieces of equipment. There's nothing wrong with having a techy amputee character who can do their own repairs, but in reality, that is pretty rare, and its ok to have your character need to see a prosthetist or someone more knowledgeable than them. It's a part of the amputee experience I don't see reflected very often in media. In fact, the only examples I can think of in fiction (meaning not stories based on real people) where this is reflected are Full metal alchemist.

technically I think Subnautica Below Zero also mentions prosthetists are a thing in that world, but its a very "blink and you'll miss it" kind of thing...in fact I did miss it until my last playthrough lol.

#Writing Disability with Cy Cyborg #long post #id in alt text #amputee #writing disability #disability #disabilities #disabled #actually disabled #writing advice #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #disability representation #authors of tumblr #prosthetics #disability aids #mobility aids #amputee life #amputee problems #full metal alchemist #automail #amputee representation

[emsartwork]

Barbie Girls: Nori and Elina

side note! Noriko is deaf, she has a cochlear implant but doesn’t wear it often because she’s always in the water or in a boat, she has just finished signing “courage” to Elina here 

#barbie #barbie fairytopia #barbie mermaidia #barbie elina #barbie nori #barbie movies #barbie girls #street style #fashion #swimwear #tattoos #protea #cherry blossoms #chrysanthemum #prosthetics #nori's full name is actually noriko #the girls taking a breather and bonding together after the depths of despair stuff~ #elina's tattoo is the protea flower which symbolizes courage transformation daring resourcefulness and diversity #nori has cherry blossoms which besides being strongly associated with japan #also represent transience of life 'Mono no aware' 'Wabi-sabi' gentleness and kindness #her chrysanthemums represent fidelity optimism joy long life and love #the little tattoo on her foot was her first pet goldfish 'bobo McSpotty' lol

[tobuzzu]

Leafspeak prosthetic! A doodle for a some leafwing ocs of mine. The arm utilizes sundews and waterwheels as servos, and allows for a dragon to feel tactile senses by using the plants’ own touch receptors to replicate nerves. In other words plant feel thing, leafspeak tell dragon about feel, dragon feel! There’s a hand guard as well to allow for walking that can swivel back for grabbing stuff. Yeah thats all goodbyeeee

#wof #dragon #wings of fire #wingsoffire #art #fantasy #dragons #fanart #wof fanart #prosthetics #headcanon

[honnneyz]

Sonadow AU

#my art #sonadow #au #sonic #shadow #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sketch #doodles #aged up #aged up characters #prosthetics

[mottemort]

Arkham Jason with a prosthetic arm

#jason todd #fanart #arkham knight #arkhamverse #sketch #wayne family adventures #batman wayne family adventures #wfa #prosthetics

[zegalba]

Xiao Yang's custom prosthetic leg by YVMIN

#Xiao Yang #YVMIN #prosthetics #prosthetic leg #chrome #futurism #art #fashion #accessories #flower #floral #white

[no-hands]

#amputee #leg amputee #sak amputee #sbk amputee #prosthetics #prosthetic leg