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Abstract
We will examine the technology challenge of how engineers are improving comfort and user friendliness of prosthetics, while maintaining durability. Athletes encounter issues while training with prosthetic limbs due to discomfort at the attachment site. Our key focus material system will be polymers, since most prosthetics are made mainly with different kinds of polymers. This project will raise the issues related to comfort and will emphasize the importance of a solution to society because it would help the disadvantaged live fuller, happier lifestyles. The problem we are interested in is the material of prosthetics; in this case, current materials constrain their efficiency. Our video will investigate the problems that current prosthetics have based on the materials that are being used for them. Specifically, attachment sites for prosthetic limbs are uncomfortable because the basic polymers are not agreeing with the biomaterials of the body. We will discuss how a porous high-density polymer will improve limb prosthetics overall. Porous polymer materials would enhance the lives of amputees by providing artificial body parts that agree much better with the human body. The research being done to alter a polymer's properties helps to expand our knowledge of what we learned in class. We will emphasize this by discussing the relationship between the process, structure, and properties of prosthetic polymers.
Works Cited
Black, J. (2006). Implant Materials: Properties. Biological Performance of Materials: Fundamentals of Biocompatibility (pp. 129-130). Boca Raton, Fl: Taylor and Francis Group.
Buchko, C. J., Kozloff, K. M., & Martin, D. C. (2006). Surface Characterization of Porous, Biocompatible Protein Polymer Thin Films. Biomaterials, 27(5), 724-734. Retrieved April 23, 2014, from the ScienceDirect database.
Davidson, James A. (1995). United States Patent: 5458653. Smith and Nephew Richards, Inc. Retrieved May 4, 2014, from patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5458653.PN.+A000000.PN.&OS=PN/5458653+OR+PN/A000000&RS=PN/5458653+OR+PN/A000000
Davis, J. R. (2003). Polymeric Materials.Handbook of Materials for Medical Devices (pp. 151-170). Fort Lauderdale: A S M International, Incorporated.
Sauer, Barry W. (1976). Patent US3986212 -- Composite Prosthetic Device with Porous Polymeric Coating. Glasrock Products, Inc. Retrieved May 4, 2014, from google.com/patents/US3986212
The Painful Joint Prosthesis. (n.d.).Department of Radiology. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.rad.washington.edu/academics/academic-sections/msk/teaching-materials/online-musculoskeletal-radiology-book/the-painful-joint-prosthesis
Tiwari, A., Ramakrishna, S., & Kobayashi, H. (2012). Integrated Biomaterials for Biomedical Technology. Salem, MA: Scrivener Publishing LLC.
Wang, Y., Robertson, J., Spillman, W., & Claus, R. (2004). Effects of the Chemical Structure and the Surface Properties of Polymeric Biomaterials on Their Biocompatibility. Pharmaceutical Research, 21(8), 1362-1373. Retrieved April 24, 2014, from download.springer.com/static/pdf/496/art%253A10.1023%252FB%253APHAM.0000036909.41843.18.pdf?auth66=1398535928_e22d96151193831d9
Abstract
We will examine the technology challenge of how engineers are improving comfort and user friendliness of prosthetics, while maintaining durability. Athletes encounter issues while training with prosthetic limbs due to discomfort at the attachment site. Our key focus material system will be polymers, since most prosthetics are made mainly with different kinds of polymers. This project will raise the issues related to comfort and will emphasize the importance of a solution to society because it would help the disadvantaged live fuller, happier lifestyles. The problem we are interested in is the material of prosthetics; in this case, current materials constrain their efficiency. Our video will investigate the problems that current prosthetics have based on the materials that are being used for them. Specifically, attachment sites for prosthetic limbs are uncomfortable because the basic polymers are not agreeing with the biomaterials of the body. We will discuss how a porous high-density polymer will improve limb prosthetics overall. Porous polymer materials would enhance the lives of amputees by providing artificial body parts that agree much better with the human body. The research being done to alter a polymer's properties helps to expand our knowledge of what we learned in class. We will emphasize this by discussing the relationship between the process, structure, and properties of prosthetic polymers.
Works Cited
Black, J. (2006). Implant Materials: Properties. Biological Performance of Materials: Fundamentals of Biocompatibility (pp. 129-130). Boca Raton, Fl: Taylor and Francis Group.
Buchko, C. J., Kozloff, K. M., & Martin, D. C. (2006). Surface Characterization of Porous, Biocompatible Protein Polymer Thin Films. Biomaterials, 27(5), 724-734. Retrieved April 23, 2014, from the ScienceDirect database.
Davidson, James A. (1995). United States Patent: 5458653. Smith and Nephew Richards, Inc. Retrieved May 4, 2014, from patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5458653.PN.+A000000.PN.&OS=PN/5458653+OR+PN/A000000&RS=PN/5458653+OR+PN/A000000
Davis, J. R. (2003). Polymeric Materials.Handbook of Materials for Medical Devices (pp. 151-170). Fort Lauderdale: A S M International, Incorporated.
Sauer, Barry W. (1976). Patent US3986212 -- Composite Prosthetic Device with Porous Polymeric Coating. Glasrock Products, Inc. Retrieved May 4, 2014, from google.com/patents/US3986212
The Painful Joint Prosthesis. (n.d.).Department of Radiology. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://www.rad.washington.edu/academics/academic-sections/msk/teaching-materials/online-musculoskeletal-radiology-book/the-painful-joint-prosthesis
Tiwari, A., Ramakrishna, S., & Kobayashi, H. (2012). Integrated Biomaterials for Biomedical Technology. Salem, MA: Scrivener Publishing LLC.
Wang, Y., Robertson, J., Spillman, W., & Claus, R. (2004). Effects of the Chemical Structure and the Surface Properties of Polymeric Biomaterials on Their Biocompatibility. Pharmaceutical Research, 21(8), 1362-1373. Retrieved April 24, 2014, from download.springer.com/static/pdf/496/art%253A10.1023%252FB%253APHAM.0000036909.41843.18.pdf?auth66=1398535928_e22d96151193831d9
