Animal Prosthetics

This is AMAZING, thank you for spending the time to help these animals. You make the world a better place. Seeing all the dogs and cats and sheep all running happily just makes me feel so happy!  Animal Prosthetics:

This looks like the world of animal prosthetics and technological innovations give our favorite furry animals a second chance at a care-free life. the only real downside here is that prosthetic limbs are so expensive, they generally cost an arm or a leg.

There’s been an advance in human prosthetics with the introduction of myoelectrics and targeted muscle re-innervation. I’ll leave the research up to you on what both are. As for the people who looked the term up, there is an open source myoelectric prosthetic hand that costs $300 to make, which is drastically cheaper than most if not all others, so it should be just as cheep to build one for animals. The only potential problem I see so far in designing the myoelectric ones for animals is that, for those who would need the targeted muscle re-innervation surgery for it to work, the smaller the animal is, the more accurate they’d have to be with the surgery. Have we gotten past this surgical limitation? Cause I really don’t know. Continue reading “Animal Prosthetics”