What is the Sarcos Exoskeleton and How Can It Revolutionize Protection?

[rewebster]

I've heard chocolate and cayenne pepper are good for some pain relief.


(hot 'HOT' chocolate)

 

[turbo]

And have you seen the doctor yet? You're good at making sure everyone else here sees a doctor when they need one, and now it's time for you to see one and are being stubborn about it, aren't you? The longer you wait, the more likely it is the damage will be permanent. Do you want to be in this sort of pain the rest of your life? Or worse, lose all sensation to your fingers? If you think you have an uncanny attraction for klutzy accidents now, wait until you can't feel your fingers...get to a doctor!

Yep, Evo is definitely in doctor-avoidance mode, and that's not good.

During an exam last spring, I mentioned to my doctor that I was experiencing some numbness/tingling in my fingers, particularly in the little fingers and ring fingers. He rubbed the sides of my ring fingers and asked if one side was more tingly/numb than the other. It seems that the ulnar nerve serves the whole little finger, but only the anterior side of the ring finger. He asked if I sat in a chair with arm rests, and I told him that my office chair has them. He told me to remove the arm rests so that I couldn't rest my forearms on them and that due to the time it takes for those nerves to regenerate/recover function, it would take a few months for the situation to resolve. He was right. If you've got a good doctor, he/she can resolve stuff without resorting to therapies, drugs, etc.

 

[rewebster]

Evo--do you sit at the computer more than one hour per day?-----turbo may be on to the reason for the 'tingling' feeling

 

[Evo]

Evo--do you sit at the computer more than one hour per day?-----turbo may be on to the reason for the 'tingling' feeling

I've had carpal tunnel syndrome before, but it was fixed by lowering my key board.

This I can feel it in my elbow, I felt there was a break or problem in my shoulder but the doctors never checked. Now it has gotten to the point that it's excrutiating.

 

[wolram]

I went to the doctor Friday, I thought he'd at least x-ray my back and shoulder, but he says I need to go back to the orthopedic surgeon. Also my health insurance provider changed yesterday and I need my new insurance card. I'm hoping to get into see him early next week.

And you're right, I hate going to doctors.

Excuses, excuses, may be next time you go you might see a doctor you fancy then later marry him grrrrr.

 

[Kurdt]

Excuses, excuses, may be next time you go you might see a doctor you fancy then later marry him grrrrr.

Would you marry someone that had already probed you with a wooden spatula?

 

[rewebster]

I've had carpal tunnel syndrome before, but it was fixed by lowering my key board.

This I can feel it in my elbow, I felt there was a break or problem in my shoulder but the doctors never checked. Now it has gotten to the point that it's excrutiating.

You haven't been posting a whole lot---are you still hurting?

any news?

 

[wolram]

Would you marry someone that had already probed you with a wooden spatula?

Yes.
And i am missing chicken legs too, i so hope you are OK tich.

 

[Moonbear]

Would you marry someone that had already probed you with a wooden spatula?

Well, if that's what the guys are calling it nowadays, I think it's mandatory.

Yep, waiting for an update Evo. Which fingers are numb and tingling in addition to the pain in your shoulder? The med students will be learning the upper limb the next two weeks, so I can use your symptoms as an example when grilling them as I walk around the lab.

On Monday, I'll be using my nutty brother-in-law as an example...he managed to break the spine off one of his vertebrae while weight lifting (or actually, while resting the bar on his back/shoulders)...he's lucky that's all that snapped. The doctors in the ER first thought he just pulled a muscle, but he insisted they do x-rays because it didn't feel the same as muscle pulls he's had before...all he could describe is that it felt "weird" in addition to the pain. They had never seen someone do that while weight lifting before, usually it's lower back injuries, and soft-tissue not broken bones. I'm calling it a dork injury. But, it's a good example to get the students thinking. He was complaining about a weird feeling in his index finger while I was visiting, and that's consistent with the location of his injury. So, it's a good example to get the med students thinking about relationships between cervical spinal nerves and changes in sensory function far from the site of injury.

 

[Astronuc]

This is what I was thinking about three weeks ago - the Sarcos Exeskeleton.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/inside-sarcos-exoskeleton-lab-16163.php
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/humanoids/sarcoss-exoskeleton-is-more-amazing-than-we-thought-326128.php

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2007/11/27/yeates.ut.robo.soldier.ksl


I think it would be very useful. We just need to add the armour.