hooks for hands

These days prosthetics are really awesome. They can actually pick things up as you would if you hand fingers. However, they are incredibly expensive and out of the question for most people. Have you ever noticed that people with missing arms rarely wear prosthetics? I'd try to use prosthetics if I lost my hands.

I remember seeing something about this on tv. The woman had gotten some weird disease after giving birth to her second child. She wound up having to lose both her hands from the elbows down as well as her legs. She was heartbroken that she couldn't hold her newborn child. They gave her hooks and she's learning how to use them to try and care for her child. They have these things so she can clamp onto stuff and still change the baby's diaper and so on. But it appears very difficult. She's lucky as her husband and her older daughter help out. I think I'd be devastated at first. I'd mourn the loss of the things I would think I couldn't do anymore. But eventually I'd have to learn to accept that this is now my life and work hard to still function as normally as I could.

I'd likely be sad for a period of time, and then I'd move on to learning how to use whatever was the best replacement for them. I think losing a body part would be tough no matter what, but I don't do anything that requires any advanced skills with my hands. No musical instruments or art work or anything. So, I wouldn't have to adjust to not being able to do that or to learning how to do it with hooks or prostheses if it's possible.

Being an amputee myself, I have met several people at the prosthetics company who have lost one or both hand and even know a girl that lost all 4 limbs. The good thing is they are making such advancements in prosthetics that they now how these myoplex arms that respond to muscle movement. You have to train them how to work and it is a long process but they give you much of the mobility that a natural arm does.