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The advancement of technology in the healthcare sector has facilitated the development of modernized ways of helping the healthcare institutions deal with patients who suffer from various injuries. The use of robotics in the healthcare sector in particular in exoskeleton has facilitated recovery of patients with spinal injuries to walking again. The application of robotics has facilitated the disabled people to walk again with the use of equipment. The increase of the number of patients who suffer spinal cord injury has increased the interest to study the use of robots in the medical practice (Iqbal and Baizid, 2015). The Helen Hayes hospital in particular practices the use of robotics in the medical practice with the patients who are not able to walk.

Technology is used with the combination of robotics and the human assistance that facilitate walking for the disabled persons. This technology involves the use of a battery that is house-packed and two robotic upright s that are worn on the patient’s legs. The technology used detects the leg that is making the step and the one that should stay straight while crutches are used for support (Cosman, Nieves and Dempster, 2017). This technology is important for helping the disabled come back into their walking ways through the help of the technology.

What ways does the use of robots in medical practice improve the healthcare sector? This is the question I seek to answer through this paper to indicate the needs that will be met possibly through the application of technology in the healthcare sector. What are the ways that disabled persons could benefit through this application of robotics in the medical practice? This will enable the improvement of medical researches that are done with the purpose of generating various benefits that accrue to the use of robots in medical practice.

Reflection / Annotated Bibliography

Sankai, Y., & Sakurai, T. (2018). Exoskeletal cyborg-type robot. Science Robotics, 3(17), eaat3912. Retrieved from

https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/17/eaat3912.abstract

This article examines the use of science robotics in exoskeleton cyborg-type robot. The article applied the fusion of humans, robots and the information systems as its methods. The findings of this article indicated that research on exoskeleton cyborg type robots has enabled the shaping of the way the novel methods of medical care are being improved. The findings indicated that there was progress that had gone beyond the mechanisms that were being used for maneuvering. This article relates to my topic and increases the scope of knowledge on the cyborg technology. I can use this article to develop my paper by enhancing the methods used with reference to my research paper.

Sparkes, A. C., Brighton, J., & Inckle, K. (2018). ‘It’sa part of me’: an ethnographic exploration of becoming a disabled sporting cyborg following spinal cord injury. Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health, 10(2), 151-166.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2159676X.2017.1389768

The article is about the sporting technologies and the process of making cyborgs that lacks attention that is given to the experiences of the athletes. The article puts focus on the athletes who are disabled and they collected data from a four-year-old ethnographic study that had details of the experiences of athletes who had been involved in spinal cord injury. The findings of this article are that there were stages in the process of an athlete becoming a cyborg who would lead a normal life. The article indicated that there are dynamics that are employed for the purpose of shaping the body self-relationship over a given period of time. The article is relevant to my topic as it gives more insights in how the technology can facilitate the improving of lives and develop my paper by adding more insights to the technology.

Gaggioli, A. (2017). Cyborg-Psychology. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20(7), 458-458.

Retrieved from https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2017.29078.csi

This article explains how a pilot was replaced his limbs with a nuclear powered and implants after involving in an accident. There is the used advanced technological implantable electromyography which made it possible to restore the cognitive functions and the ones lost during a spinal cord injury. Also, they use sensory neuroprostheses that helps in giving one visual and auditory speeches. These replacements have been observed to give people superhuman abilities which can be used in missions. It is of prominence since it shows us what such people are capable of and what to expect from them therefore, one can prepare fully on how to deal with the hackers since they can also be hacked and the data can be lost.

Zuniga, J., Katsavelis, D., Peck, J., Stollberg, J., Petrykowski, M., Carson, A., & Fernandez, C. (2015). Cyborg beast: a low-cost 3d-printed prosthetic hand for children with upper-limb differences. BMC research notes, 8(1), 10.

Retrieved from https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-015-0971-9

It is about children who suffer from trauma and congenital hands removal through surgery. In order to replace to occur, a very tough procedure allows due to their small size and development. They used the methods of myoelectric and mechanical devices to carter for their needs by replacements. It is found that some of their parents cannot afford these services and hence there was used to offer them at low cost. It can be used in improving the quality of life to the children with these problems and be provided with cyborg opportunities.

Jochum, E. A., Demers, L. P., & Vlachos, E. (2018). Becoming Cyborg: Corporeal Empathy, Agency and Politics of Participation in Robot Performance. In EVA-Copenhagen. Retrieved from https://www.forskningsdatabasen.dk/da/catalog/2436408499

This article examines becoming a cyborg with an enabled heightened perception of the movement and the creation of the sense preceptor experiences for empathic experiences. The article uses the esthetics of politics of interaction with exoskeletons in a participatory dance performance. The findings of the article are that there is an ethnographic understanding of how the joint action control in the participatory performances in relation to the exoskeleton allowing new kinds of empathic experiences. This article will enable the movement of patients in cyborg bodies and help in developing my paper on the use of robots in the medical practice.

References

Cosman, F., Nieves, J. W., & Dempster, D. W. (2017). Treatment sequence matters: anabolic and antiresorptive therapy for osteoporosis. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 32(2), 198-202. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbmr.3051