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thank you

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store outside huntsville alabama

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fourteen years ago amy lost her left

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hand in a car accident

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today her job's a little easier thanks

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to a simple

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but unique device derived from nasa

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robotics technology

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after her accident amy was fitted with a

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standard prosthetic

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hook as it's commonly called she founded

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strap suspension system cumbersome

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putting the prosthesis on is

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one of the problems how about operating

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your terminal device

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moving her right shoulder to operate the

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device was painful

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and she couldn't do all she needed to

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with something that simply

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opened and closed and so shortly

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thereafter i just put it aside

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and um just went back to using

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what i had my one hand

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the new devices developed for mrs

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bradley at nasa marshall

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attached to a socket which slides on

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she works with this spatula type

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and she's come up with a number of other

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applications for the clip

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she uses at work i'm able to do things

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that

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i have not been able to do before and so

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they've just given me a little more

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self-confidence

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they've relieved a lot of pain that i

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was having from overusing my right

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shoulder

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and and of course i can curl my hair

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it was jim carden who got nasa started

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on this project

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an engineer at marshall for 30 years

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cardin lost his left hand in his small

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lumber business

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shortly before he retired when i looked

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out there and there was nothing

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available but a hook

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i said it's it's a sad

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case for us amputees cardin talked to

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some of his co-workers at marshall

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including aerospace engineer pete

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belcher designer tommy vest

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and john richardson from the technology

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utilization office

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borrowing from robotics technology they

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came up with a number of devices

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though simple this bell-shaped

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attachment is one of jim carden's

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favorites

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it lets him crank his fishing reel

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something he just couldn't do

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the project has also produced this heavy

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lift design

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which cardin uses around his ranch and

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lumber business

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i think still do the things i want to do

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and smile about it

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the people at marshall are now working

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on a lightweight alternative to the

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standard hook for small tasks around the

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house

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rather than the bulky shoulder harness

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it is triggered by the rotation of the

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forearm

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the simplicity of all these devices not

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only makes them easy to use

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but inexpensive to produce nasa is now

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negotiating with a rehabilitation

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facility

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nasa's prosthetics project developing

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simple economical alternatives from