How to Imagine the Unknown: Choosing an Arm Prosthesis

12/10/2023 12 min

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Episode Synopsis


This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/how-to-imagine-the-unknown-choosing-an-arm-prosthesis/. About the post: An important cause of anxiety for her was how to choose a prosthetic and which one to choose. According to her, during one appointment, her doctor gave her a prosthetics catalog to look through, which she found useless. Without being able to see how someone would use different types of hooks, or someone to explain how two myoelectric elbows were different, that catalog was just a bewildering list with pictures.

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