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Amanda Kitts was fitted with a bionic arm

In New Procedure, Artificial Arm Listens to Brain


By News on the Net ——--February 11, 2009

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Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, but these days she plays football with her 12-year-old son, and changes diapers and bearhugs children at the three Kiddie Cottage day care centers she owns in Knoxville, Tenn.

Ms. Kitts, 40, does this all with a new kind of artificial arm that moves more easily than other devices and that she can control by using only her thoughts. “I’m able to move my hand, wrist and elbow all at the same time,” she said. “You think, and then your muscles move.”...more

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