I picked up my final socket for my i-Limb hand a week back, from Rich at Diablo O&P . He had lovingly created a carbon fiber socket with a blue fleck running through it based on the test socket he had made earlier. We decided to move the electrodes up higher to try to resolve the [...]

Last week I picked up my test socket from Rich, at Diablo Prosthetics & Orthotics, fitted with the i-Limb hand. Since this is my first myo-electric hand we are still experimenting with the socket design and electrode placement, so it’s still early days. The test socket Rich built is pretty cool, it’s clear plastic so [...]

I’ve started the process to get an i-Limb hand from TouchBionics! This week I met with Dr. Suzy Kim at Kaiser in Martinez. I had been referred to her by my general doctor so I could make a case to get an i-Limb hand. I hadn’t met Dr. Kim before, so didn’t know what to [...]

TouchBionics have now released their i-Limb hand commercially in the US. I have written about it a couple of times and it’s an amazing device…check out their site for some action videos of people using it. There are also some videos on YouTube, check this out out…watch closely and you’ll see the world’s first bionic [...]

I got my new arm this week, a thing of beauty! Rich Sire from Diablo Prosthetics did a great job on my new arm, I wanted to go for the high-tech look since I didn’t really like the look of my first prosthetic, which is pink (looks like a dolls arm). Since I’m not trying [...]