{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Bionic hands change the lives of amputees' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c534d8eafeecae16e795' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c534d8eafeecae16e795' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nBionic hands change the lives of amputees\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=\"\u003e/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eEdinburgh, United Kingdom - 21 August, 20071. Various close of bionic hands2. Various of bionic hands3. Close of bionic hand next to cup4. Mid of Donald McKillop and Bill Dykes5. Close of Donald's amputation6. Various of Donald McKillop...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEdinburgh, United Kingdom - 21 August, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various close of bionic hands\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of bionic hands\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of bionic hand next to cup\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of Donald McKillop and Bill Dykes\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close of Donald's amputation\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Donald McKillop fitting bionic hand\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of bionic hand being used\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald McKillop, amputee\u003cbr/\u003e\"I lost my hand in 1977 due to an accident I had in 1969. I cut my wrist with a glass that was on the arm of a chair. I went to stand up and my hand went through the glass. The original cut was two stitches but there was a lot of glass left in my hand, which started to travel and come out different joints. For eight years they where taking out glass regularly. Two years before the amputation I wore a cok-up splint to protect my wrist but it broke one night due to wear and tare at my work, and my wrist broke. Ten months later the fractures had not even started to heal. So I had to sit down and discuss, my wife myself and the surgeon, discussing that an amputation was the only way out.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of Donald McKillop and Bill Dykes\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of bionic hand grasping an orange\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Dykes, Prosthestist\u003cbr/\u003e\"The process that's involved in fitting a patient with one of these hands is the first stage is we have to take a mould of the patients remaining limb so we can make up a socket, as each of these prostheses are individually made for each patient.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Set up Stewart Hill in workshop\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stewart Hill, Project Manager\u003cbr/\u003e\"How the hand actually works is the patient thinks of an action and the brain sends a signal down through the central nervous system to a muscle grip. Now we read that signal, and it allows the hand to open and close. Now, the really intelligent part about the hand is the way it adapts to the different shaped objects.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of Stewart Hill working on bionic hand\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald McKillop, amputee\u003cbr/\u003e\"That's what you do in your mind. You're working the two of them at the same time. I am getting used to it now. It's just practice because you can literally do any task with it. It's done every task I have asked it to do. Any problems it has been me not trusting myself to try something or to do it. I didn't drive for a while until I trusted myself to do it. It's not the hand. The hand is more than capable of doing anything.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of Donald McKillop walking to car\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of bionic arm\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of Donald McKillop getting into car\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of Donald McKillop putting bionic hand on steering wheel \u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of Donald McKillop starting car\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of Donald McKillop driving\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various close of rubber hands\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of bionic hands\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Hill, Project Manager:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The actual cosmetics coverings are very interesting because as you might imagine each person is different. Each person's skin tone is different, even between holding your hand up high and holding your hand down low your hand changes colour. So, skin tone and cosmetic coverings are very important.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of various bionics hand\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Hill, Project Manager\u003cbr/\u003e\"We find a lot of the guys prefer not to have a prosthetic hand cover,  but to have something that looks cool like an I pod cover.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Close of bionic hand grasping hand\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stuart Mead, Chief Executive Officer, Touch Bionics \u003cbr/\u003e\"The future for Touch bionics is to produce a whole arm system. So we have a prototype, shoulder, elbow, wrist as well as the hand. I think the future for the industry will be in the control of these things. These devices have many more degrees of freedom that can be controlled by amputees today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close of Bionic hand moving\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald McKillop, amputee\u003cbr/\u003e\"I can eat my dinner with a knife and fork now, which I haven't done that for 30 years. You know, things that I have not done, for 30 years. I like cooking, its much easier at a cooker, I can hold the pot and stir, which I could not do before.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Close of hand grasping orange\u003cbr/\u003eAmputees are being offered a bionic hand which gives them new-found freedom.\u003cbr/\u003eDeveloped in Scotland, the I-Limb is already changing the life of one amputee.\u003cbr/\u003eBionic limbs are no longer a thing of the future.\u003cbr/\u003eTouch Bionics, based in Scotland, is the first company in the world to produce commercially available bionic hands.\u003cbr/\u003eThough they may look like something out of a science-fiction film, these hands are helping real people.\u003cbr/\u003eThe hands have been successfully fitted to patients throughout Europe and the United States.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the high-tech hands on offer is the I- Limb, the world's first available prosthetic hand.\u003cbr/\u003eEach hand has five individually powered motors, allowing users additional freedom.\u003cbr/\u003eThe unique limbs are equipped with electrodes that sit on the surface of the skin.\u003cbr/\u003eThey use a traditional two-input myoelectric (muscle signal) to open and close the hand's life-like fingers.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the patients using the I-Limb is Donald McKillop.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says his hand was amputated in 1977 after cutting his wrist with a broken glass.\u003cbr/\u003eWith the I-Limb McKillop has been given a new lease of life.\u003cbr/\u003eBill Dykes is a prosthesist who has been examining McKillop.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says each hand is made to measure.\u003cbr/\u003eAll limbs made by the company are assembled in the workshop by a team of qualified engineers.\u003cbr/\u003eStewart Hill is one of the project managers.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says patients operate the hands by thinking of a specific action they want their hand to perform.\u003cbr/\u003eThe brain then sends a signal down through the central nervous system to the muscles.\u003cbr/\u003eHill also says that what makes the bionic hands really unique is that they are able to adapt to different shaped objects.\u003cbr/\u003eMcKillop says the hand is capable of performing all the tasks he trusts himself to do.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly recently has McKillop been confident enough try his hand at driving.\u003cbr/\u003eNow he makes it look easy.\u003cbr/\u003eAll he requires is a small attachment to his steering wheel that gives him extra control.\u003cbr/\u003eYet, those using the bionic limbs also require them look realistic.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the workshop a wide variety of plastic covers matching different skin tones are available.\u003cbr/\u003eStewart Hill says matching people's skin tones is very difficult.\u003cbr/\u003eHill also says some patients ask for customised covers.\u003cbr/\u003eThe makers of the bionic limbs hope one day they will be able to design a whole bionic arm.\u003cbr/\u003eStuart Mead says they already have a prototype.\u003cbr/\u003eNonetheless for McKillop his bionic has already changed his life.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says his new hand is allowing him to cook for the first time in 30 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