A New Option of Prosthesis

Today in one of the newspapers appears some news that interested me in a special way, Wladimir Silva, a guy of twenty two years old have the lucky to could use from now on one of the five prototypes of artificial hands made only with a 3D printer for Jorge Zúñiga, a physiologist resident in the United States. This new kind of prosthesis came to make easier the life to people with problems like the Poland Syndrome that suffer Wladimir Silva. This syndrome means to Wladimir to born without some muscles of the upper right part of his body and the congenital amputation of some of his fingers. Some others good aspects of this creative prosthesis are that were made with ABS plastic, a very light, malleable and cheap material. The last aspect it’s too important because one of this prosthesis cost only 25 dollars, a fifteen thousand Chilean pesos approximately.

The reason of my interest in this new because to me it’s so good to know that some people use the innovation of our technological world to help people like Wladimir who suffer some kind of disability. Personally I knew some cases very near of disability, because my two half-brothers have one, so any chance to make more comfortable and easier the life of people with this kind of problems have my unconditional support.