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Hip implants designed for women
ORTHOPAEDIC surgeons at Rush University Medical Centre are offering a new hip replacement designed especially for women.
The M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis with Kinectiv Technology was designed by Richard Berger, a doctor at the hospital, and made by Zimmer Inc.
'The traditional artificial hip is based on a man's anatomy,' said Richard. 'Women are built differently than men - they tend to be shorter, more petite and have smaller bones and shorter hips.'
ORTHOPAEDIC surgeons at Rush University Medical Centre are offering a new hip replacement designed especially for women.
The M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis with Kinectiv Technology was designed by Richard Berger, a doctor at the hospital, and made by Zimmer Inc.
'The traditional artificial hip is based on a man's anatomy,' said Richard. 'Women are built differently than men - they tend to be shorter, more petite and have smaller bones and shorter hips.'
Marine Claudia 'feeling sensations in missing hand'
A WOMAN marine fitted with a 'bionic arm' which is controlled by thought has begun feeling sensations in her missing hand.
Claudia Mitchell, who lost her arm in a motorcycle crash in 2004, was fitted with a standard prosthetic arm after attempts to reattach her severed limb were unsuccessful.
But as her arm had been amputated at the shoulder, she lost the nerves normally used to control a conventional prosthetic arm and so volunteered to be fitted with a new type of limb in 2006 which uses a surgical process called 'targeted reinnervation'.
A WOMAN marine fitted with a 'bionic arm' which is controlled by thought has begun feeling sensations in her missing hand.
Claudia Mitchell, who lost her arm in a motorcycle crash in 2004, was fitted with a standard prosthetic arm after attempts to reattach her severed limb were unsuccessful.
But as her arm had been amputated at the shoulder, she lost the nerves normally used to control a conventional prosthetic arm and so volunteered to be fitted with a new type of limb in 2006 which uses a surgical process called 'targeted reinnervation'.
