Reporters Forget No War Wound Is New

This could have been a really great story but yet again, they seem to have forgotten that there were amputees from ALL WARS and not just Iraq and Afghanistan. The Orlando DAV Chapter 16 has two triple amputees from the Vietnam war. While it is true that the fatality rate has decreased because of medical advancements, we cannot forget that no wound in these wars is different than wars of past generations. Watch the video and then you'll know why.

DARPA taps tech to build sophisticated artificial limbs for wounded veterans
FOX News
Alison Barrie
March 5, 2015

For more than 10 years, DARPA has been relentlessly advancing prosthetic limbs in an attempt to revolutionize the devices. The agency, for example, recently debuted two advanced mechatronic limbs for the upper body. Truly leveraging these revolutionary devices, though, means restoring the link between thought and the hand and arm devices.

Restoring hands, arms, feet, and legs to those wounded in the service of our country should be a national priority…and now, finally, it is, thanks to some very promising technological advances.

Technology advances in area such as body armor and medical response have helped save many, many, wounded U.S. warfighters’ lives. However, many who survive are permanently wounded and today’s generation of warfighters has to contend with an unprecedented frequency of limb loss. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is committed to building highly sophisticated prostheses, giving wounded servicemembers and veterans naturally functioning limbs.

The HAPTIX (Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces) project is working on creating a solution for amputees. This solution would be implanted and directly communicate with the nervous system and brain. This means that a person could think and the hand and arm would move intuitively and function just like a natural hand, complete with the dexterity and sense of touch.

The agency has recently moved its HAPTIX program forward by selecting eight teams that will advance the development of next-generation, state of the art upper-limb prostheses. In particular, they are focusing on creating hands that will move and have a sense of touch like natural ones.
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Even in this video on the link you can see an elderly man!