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History of Prosthetics
The first mention of prosthetics in history - an escape from captivity Greek Themistocles. Chained, he was forced to saw off his leg, and then ask a carpenter friend to make him a prosthesis.
Since then, prosthetics developed sufficiently small, the famous pirate hooks and wooden legs - prosthesis about the same level.
After the development of mechanics, closer to the present, began to appear more sophisticated types of prostheses, is well mimic the lost body part or even able to move through the built-in mechanisms.
But those were just the outer parts of the body prostheses, artificial limbs of the internal organs (eg AbioCor) appeared in the age of electronics, and modern medicine may be deleted altogether prosthesis with the latest stem cell technology, currently not yet fully developed. In addition to the prosthetic limb in modern medicine common procedure prosthetic joints, dental implants and cosmetic eye and other body parts. Cosmetic dentures are helping people to communicate with persons who are not used to communicate with disfigured people without undue emotionality. In addition to the prosthesis itself, the surgeons found a different solution of the partial return of the functionality of mutilated limbs. Thus, the German physician Hermann Krukenberg developed (after the First World War) Krukenberg hand - a unique "claw", which is made from the ends of the radius and ulna bones of the wounded with traumatic amputation of the hand. (Krukenberg procedure)
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