Let's go for hip replacement.

Then we fit her with a prosthesis.

Hip replacement. Okay?

Tom wears a prosthesis.

We then bent a plate up to it.

He still uses a prosthesis, but avoids talking about it.

Sheila Nirenberg A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

The state of the art is what we call myoelectric prostheses.

It's the development of a prosthetic device for treating blindness.

So the patient is on a path to have his hip replaced.

Or do you let them go and have hip replacement?

So you refer the patient to hip replacement therapy.

The thing is is that no physician would ever say, Piroxicam, ibuprofen, hip replacement.

The stump or cast prosthesis was made, and he was starting the real physical rehabilitation.

After the destruction of the harpoon ( 8), Aquaman has it replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic from S.T.A.R.

So this is what we've been working on, and this is what our prosthetic does.

And I was a guinea pig, as I hope to continue to be in every new form of prosthetic limbs that come out.

There's a limb prosthetic up here, similar actually one on the soldier that's come back from Iraq.

The dental prosthesis can be disconnected from the implant abutments with finger pressure by the wearer.

TK That's Claudia, and that was the first time she got to feel sensation through her prosthetic.

Most of the situations Vash ends up in are, in one way or another, connected to Knives.

In many cases,the phantom limb aids in adaptation to a prosthesis, as it permits the person to experience proprioception of the prosthetic limb.

On the left hand side, you see his original prosthesis, and he's using those switches to move little blocks from one box to the other.

I could show you it with a cosmesis on it that's so real it's eerie, but then you wouldn't see all this cool stuff.

Sharp and rough edges of the bone(s) are filed down, skin and muscle flaps are then transposed over the stump, occasionally with the insertion of elements to attach a prosthesis.

Here you can see the plate holding it, and you can see the implants being put in so that in one operation we achieve this and this.

It had a revolutionary prosthetic fitment and delivery system, a quick molding and modular components, enabling custom made, on the spot limb fitments.

So not only can we create a prosthetic for the visually impaired, but we can also investigate how people literally make sense of the world.

On the left side he's got a modern motorized prosthesis with those three joints, and he operates little pads in his shoulder that he touches to make the arm go.

Every time you contract a muscle, it emits a little electricity that you can record with antennae or electrodes and use that to operate the motorized prosthesis.

And then the transducer then makes the output cells send the code on up to the brain, and the result is a retinal prosthetic that can produce normal retinal output.

So it's different from the motor prosthetics where you're communicating from the brain to a device. Here we have to communicate from the outside world into the brain and be understood, and be understood by the brain.

Now I want to close on one story, which we think is another possibility which is that maybe these molecules, if you can do ultra precise control, can be used in the brain itself to make a new kind of prosthetic, an optical prosthetic.

There are some drug treatments, but they're only effective on a small fraction of the population. And so, for the vast majority of patients, their best hope for regaining sight is through prosthetic devices.

She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin.

On the right side, two months after we fit him with his targeted reinnervation prosthesis which, by the way, is the same physical arm, just programmed a little different you can see that he's much faster and much smoother as he moves these little blocks.

Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next gen robotic arm.

So I'm really a basic scientist, not a clinician, but in the last year and a half I've started to switch over, to use what we've been learning about these patterns of activity to develop prosthetic devices, and what I wanted to do today is show you an example of this.

Here are three sets of firing patterns. The top one is from a normal animal, the middle one is from a blind animal that's been treated with this encoder transducer device, and the bottom one is from a blind animal treated with a standard prosthetic.

So as you can see, the firing patterns from the blind animal treated with the encoder transducer really do very closely match the normal firing patterns and it's not perfect, but it's pretty good and the blind animal treated with the standard prosthetic, the responses really don't.