Is A Bionic Man in Our Future?

Professor Per-Ingvar Branemark, MD, Ph.D., when he discovered the ability of living tissue to integrate with titanium. Osseointegration has been described as a direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load carrying implant. Cool isn't it.

Remember in the Bible, Gen. 11. that man had built a tower to heaven. God confused man because He said in verse 6 "And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them". Then God confused their language and man then went separate ways. Well, it seem as man has progressed he has invented all kinds of things. Where would we be today if the God of Heaven had not came down and confused the masses?

Could man have built an Osseointegration much earlier in history. What a wonderful time we live in. The advancements in prosthetics have become amazing. So will we have a Bionic Man? I guess it is almost possible. With the advancement in CAD-CAM manufacturing, high impact plastic compounds, titanium parts, microelectronic components, we see a proliferation of arms and legs that function, look and feel almost real. Emerging form this tangle are Physical Restoration Engineers (PRE's). This person is not just a specialist in making legs or arms, he now incorporates highly technical myoelectric components into these products to make them function almost as good as the one God gave you. They will combine orthotics, prosthetics, anaplastology, and the as yet undefined field of osseointegrated prostheses, into a new decipline. These PRE's will draw on a worldwide database to provide the amputee with the best fit as well as the most functional instrument possible. Sounds like the bionic man to me......

I can just see it now, I walk into the prosthetic shop, and the leg guy sticks my stump in a sleeve. This thing is hooked up to a megacomputer that is hooked into the Internet. Every variable is considered and this little machine in the back spits out a check socket. The leg guy goes back to the back of the shop, picks up the socket and sticks it on my leg. It fits, a little push here, shove there, a little grinding here or there, and bang you have a check socket. All in less than a half-hour. Log gone are the days of going in and having a plaster cast made. Come back in a couple of weeks to see if the check socket is anywhere near right, Come back a week later to check the checks and changes, Repeat this three or four times. Come back in four weeks and try on the new socket that is too tight in eleven places, Redo the socket and start all over again, go back again and try the new socket. It sorta fits somewhat, so he makes you a leg, After a day and a half, call the leg gut make an appointment three weeks away, go in get a little off here and there. Go home and after a day or two, call the leg guy back for another appointment, You get one quick this time, only two weeks, Go back, cut some here, pad some there, Go home again. Spend the next week trying to get rid of that red blister. GO back Repeat. It is a lot like a shampoo bottle, The directions say put it on, rub it in, rinse, and repeat. It just does not tell you how many times you will have to repeat.

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