Bionic Hand Changing Hundreds Of Lives
LOS ANGELES - Here in the Southland, a woman's life has drastically changed and it's all because of what's being called… the bionic hand.
When Telisa Boston was 16, she lost her forearm due to a rare tumor.
"I very clearly remember, as if it were yesterday, I remember thinking how is it going to feel to not have an arm anymore?" Telisa said.
For almost twenty years, she's been using prosthetic arms with little or no function. But things have changed.
It's been two-months since Telisa got a touch bionics i-LIMB hand. It's five-individually powered digits all move, allowing Telisa to do things most of us take for granted.
Randal Alley, the Chief Prosthetist explains that the hand takes signals that are produced naturally by the muscles when you tighten them and it recreates that by amplifying the signal and sending that to a computer in the hand, which operates the prosthesis.
When Telisa first lost her arm in her teens, she said she was more concerned about cosmetics. Now that she is 35 and newly married, she says she's thinking about other things, like having a baby.
Soon, Telisa will get a custom cover for her hand that will match her skin tone perfectly.
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