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Article: Getting a Good Grip; New advances in prosthetics enable amputee soldiers to use brain signals to move their artificial limbs.
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- Newsweek International
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- September 3, 2007
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Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Abby Dalton in Washington)
Sgt. Juan Arredondo's life forever changed on Feb. 28, 2005, when, on a routine patrol between Ramadi and Fallujah, an IED exploded through the door of his vehicle. Arredondo's left arm was severed below the elbow, his hand still clinging to the wheel. Arredondo stuffed it in his pocket. Surgeons at the field hospital tried for five hours to reattach the limb. "I asked the surgeon if I could keep my hand," Arredondo says. " 'No, son,' he told me." Instead, Arredondo got a hook.
Doctors can perform near miracles in reattaching severed limbs, but when these attempts fail, the options have been slim ...
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Article: Lab pioneering arms controlled by thought: Pentagon taps APL to ...
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);
April 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
...Byline: Frank D. Roylance Apr. 1--The Pentagon wants to get one thing straight: It is not building a "bionic" arm like the one test pilot Steve Austin got in The Six Million Dollar Man TV series more than 30 years ago. True, the government is paying the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
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