Prosthetic offers realistic feeling, grip

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Army Sgt. Juan Arredondo uses an i-LIMB Hand from Touch Bionics.


Prosthetic offers realistic feeling, grip
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 17:18:59 EST

When Army Sgt. Juan Arredondo catches a football while playing with his kids, it seems even more miraculous than the New York Giants’ recent Super Bowl win.

Arredondo, 28, lost his left hand when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee in Ramadi, Iraq, on Feb. 28, 2005, severing his arm at the wrist.

“My hand was still on the steering wheel, so I grabbed it and got out,” Arredondo said. He stuck his hand in his cargo pocket, but when he presented it to the doctors back at the combat support hospital at Taqaddum, they couldn’t save it.

Scientists built him a new one.

Arredondo is the first soldier to use a new hand — the i-LIMB — that has working motors in each finger. Previous versions had only one motor that powered the thumb and two fingers.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/military_bionicarm_080213w/