LONDON – Eight weeks premature, Jacob Scrimshaw he was born without much of his left arm. The British Health Service does not cover robotic prostheses above the elbow. But the parents didn't give up.With a crowdfunding, Gemma Turner and Chris Scrimshaw, both 36-year-olds from Calderdale, in western Yorskshire, managed to raise the money needed to ask for the bionic limb project, which cost about £ 16,000, almost € 20,000.
Has been Ben Ryan, from the Menai Bridge of Anglesey in Wales, to respond to the request on Instagram. Fa warden of the Ambionics and director of Glaze Prosthetics UK, Ryan also experienced a story similar to that of Jabob's parents. His son Sol, four years old, had lost his arm when he was only ten days old. He had therefore designed a prosthesis that Sol had managed to wear already at five weeks, even learning to crawl.Ryan made the arm for Jacob, who is now 5, in just 12 weeks. And clear ideas. He didn't want a limb that only served to make him look like others. He wanted an arm to move, a hand that could hold and grasp.
Has been Ben Ryan, from the Menai Bridge of Anglesey in Wales, to respond to the request on Instagram. Fa warden of the Ambionics and director of Glaze Prosthetics UK, Ryan also experienced a story similar to that of Jabob's parents. His son Sol, four years old, had lost his arm when he was only ten days old. He had therefore designed a prosthesis that Sol had managed to wear already at five weeks, even learning to crawl.Ryan made the arm for Jacob, who is now 5, in just 12 weeks. And clear ideas. He didn't want a limb that only served to make him look like others. He wanted an arm to move, a hand that could hold and grasp.
To become a superhero, a little Hulk: "This is why the prosthesis is green, he likes it a lot and can finally embrace his brother Sebastian, three years old, and push his little sister, Nell, six months, in his stroller", the parents said . "It was what Jacob wanted," Ryan said, "and exceeded all expectations, he immediately put his arm on. It was possible to design it, and the parents never stopped believing in it." Jacob is the first child in the UK to have a working prosthesis fixed over his elbow.
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