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Prosthetics In Nigeria: The Amputee Story pt 3

What solutions can Nigeria offer? Where do you need to go? There are various solutions available to amputees in Nigeria. These range from locally made Prosthetics and orthotic devices to foreign ones. But first what are Prosthetic and Orthotic devices. Mmomelu Solomon of solotag78 “Prosthetics can be defined as the science of fabricating various Orthopadeic devices or appliances to substitute or replace a missing body part. It can be an upper or lower body extremity. Example includes below the knee prosthetics and above the knee Prosthesis for the lower body extremity and below the elbow and above the elbow Prosthesis for the Upper body extremity to mention a few.” These device can render a cosmetic effect replacement to a functional effect replacement to devices that can perform better that the actual limb. Studies show that the technology of the locally made prosthetics provide more of a cosmetic effect, this is due to the technologies available to our locally prosthetic technicians....

When you are about to loose a leg

How does it feel to be an Amputee. How does it feel to loose the use of an arm,leg or both. How does it feel to see others do the thing you want so badly to do. We leave home and call a bike to take us to our destination without a safety gear or harness. Our faith, that God is with us and nothing will happen. We enter a bus to get home from work, the bus driver is driving like a complete manic with a mission to get to his bus stops on time. We smile inwardly and enjoy his bravado and insult those who get in the way of his drivng, we fear nothing. Why should we fear when God is with us nothing will happen. We drive out for a night on the town, and do the thing that makes that nation great and crazy. We drink to stupor and get behind the wheel, performing daring moves and flooring the gas on port hole riddled roads while being cheered by our friends in the back sit. Why worry, god is with us. Life does not end because we lose an arm or a leg or both.Life does not end because we were born...