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Doctors Create Prosthetic Limbs Complete with Implanted Electrodes for a “Real Feeling”

Cleveland, Ohio — Dr. Daniel Tan and his

colleagues at the Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical

Centre announced on October 10, 2014 their discovery of

new ways to make artificial limbs feel like real limbs. The trick to making the prostheses

feel natural is the reliance on an electronic machine connected to the amputees’ stumps.

The machine-signaled limb sends a sensation to the nerves in the body, allowing for the

performance of everyday tasks through an artificial limb.

The breakthrough of electronic prosthetics will change the way people with missing

limbs live. Dr. Tan’s subjects report sensations in their hands when the electronic limb is

connected, which depends on the current Tan applies. These modern prostheses are able

to signal muscles through electrodes attached to the skin of the missing limb’s stump to

perform easy tasks. When participants were asked to compare the limb with electrodes to

the one without, the decision was undeniable. As one stated, “I’d rather have it in a

heartbeat.” The computer-generated limbs give consumers the feeling that the limb being

used is an integral part of their body.

For Immediate Release:October 11, 2014

CONTACT:Dana SilvestriAddress: 584 Bement Ave.Cell: 347.853.3605Email: dana.silvestri94@gmail.com

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Max Ortiz of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and his colleagues have

designed sockets to mount the limbs Tan created, through a process called

osseointegration. The process involves implants to be fixed into a patient’s bones to latch

onto the limbs. This socket will allow for electrodes to control the prosthesis, which will

enable patients to comfortably and safely use their electronic limbs.

Dr. Tan has been in the medical field for over 15 years, having attended Cornell

University from 1996-2000. He is originally from Portland, Oregon, where most of his

family resides. At Cornell University he became interested in prosthetics, after a family

member lost her leg in a car accident. He opened his own practice in 2010, specializing in

the treatment of amputees.

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