Animal Prosthetics

People have been applying prosthesis to help the handicapped ones ever since the Egyptians – but probably only recently we realized, we’re not the only ones suffering the pain on Earth. Unlike people, animals can’t cry or complain about the pain, and the less resilient ones lead a much shorter and harder life in case of any accident. Even though veterinarians do provide considerable help, more serious surgeries or even usage of a special prosthetic is a fairly recent thing the humanity started doing for the animals.

While in the wild, animals can get hurt in a number of different ways, be that a disease or an accident, getting harmed by a human or larger predators, or any other. However, now more and more centers worldwide are applying mechanisms to help the animals recover from the injury and live as normal of a life as possible. Check out some inspiring examples of the how people have helped the animals by fitting them with a prosthetic needed!

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Siberian Doctors Use Sticks to Literally Beat Drug Addiction

There’s a new way to beat your addiction, but it hurts, a lot. Psychologists at a Siberian drug clinic are using corporal punishment to help drug, alcohol and even $ex addicts get their lives back. The bizarre treatment involves lashing patients’ buttocks with sticks and canes.

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“We cane the patients on the buttocks with a clear and definite medical purpose – it is not some warped sado-masochistic activity,” Professor Marina Chukhrova told The Siberian Times. Apparently, there are some sound scientific principles behind these beatings. Chukhrova and fellow practitioner Dr German Pilipenko claim addicts suffer from a lack of endorphins, known as the “happiness hormones”, and the excruciating pain stimulates their brains to release endorphins into the body, making them feel better about themselves without having to use any other stimulants. “The caning counteracts a lack of enthusiasm for life which is often behind addictions, suicidal tendencies and psychosomatic disorders,” Pilipenko says. He admits their technique gets a lot of skepticism from fellow doctors, but insists the pain acts as an injection against stress.

Massage By Snakes

Most of the resorts are named like that call our mind as the atmosphere of happiness and tranquility. But the spa in the small village of Talma Elazar in northern Israel bears a proud name “Farm carnivorous plants.” Not everyone dare to Visit this unusual spa, lets take a look why?

Such a pleasant and “terrible” procedure offered to the northern Israeli tourists.

10 Bizarre Medical Treatments Involving Animals

Humans have long depended on the natural world as the source of our most powerful treatments, from the use of sheep-gut thread to sew wounds up in ancient times, to the bacteria-killing properties of penicillin discovered in the first half of the 20th century. Yet, whether everyday or downright disgusting, some of these remedies can be pretty surprising to Western eyes. In Cambodia, for instance, cattle are sacred animals, and its apparently considered quite healthy to drink cow urine. And, unbelievably enough, the techniques used for modern heart and lung transplants were partly inspired by Soviet experiments in creating two-headed dogs during the 1950s. We list our top ten strangest medical treatments involving animals.

10. Fish Psoriasis Treatments

Originating in Turkey, fish therapy is a relatively common treatment for the symptoms of skin conditions like psoriasis. The patient immerses their affected locations in mineral water containing the fish, which proceed to slough off dead skin with their mouths in their quest for food a bit like a more beneficial school of piranhas! Doctor fish (Garra rufa obtusas), the species used, is believed to nibble away the dead and unhealthy skin while leaving healthy skin untouched. This practice has been banned in some of the US provinces due sanitary concerns but is still legal in the UK and other countries.

After death 10 functions of the body that continues

The body going back in a matter of minutes, hours, days or even weeks after his death. Yes, the article is not intended for people with weak stomachs.

01. The growth of hair and nails

The growth of hair and nails is more of a technical function. The body no longer produces fabrics for the growth of hair and nails, but they both continue to “grow” and after his death. In fact, the skin loses moisture, and just recedes, exposing the hair and nails seem more compelling long. Since we measure the length of the hair and nails from their ends, to the point where the skin starts, then when the skin is receding, they begin to seem longer.

4 Year Old Pupil Without Limbs

A child’s first day at school is a moving day for any parent.

But for four-year-old Harley Lane’s mother and father, the significance could barely be overstated.

Despite losing both his arms and legs in a battle with meningitis which almost claimed his life, Harley is doing his best to lead a normal life.

12 doctors save boy stuck in pressure cooker

A boy with his head stuck in a pressure cooker saved after a two-hour rescue operation

Kids should stay out of the kitchen they say. Apparently they should also stay away from kitchen utensils. Meet three-year-old Shivam from Rani Bagh area in northwest Delhi. 

Before and after: A team of doctors try to rescue Shivam

THIS IS Anti Rape Female Condom

Anti-rape female condom is the discovery Sonette Ehlers, a woman from South Africa. The aim is to prevent rape, in which the condom is pinched penis attackers, wounding and made helpless.

10 Unbelievable Organ Transplant Stories

1) The woman who received a kidney from her husband's lover

 A Turkish woman's life has been saved after she received a kidney from her husband's mistress. Four years after getting married, one of Meliha Avcı's kidneys ceased to work, meaning she needed to receive dialysis three times a week, four hours at a time.

During this time, Avcı's husband, Mehmet Avcı, met another woman, Ayşe İmdat. The husband moved İmdat into his mother's home, disguising her asthe babysitter for the couple's son. When Meliha Avcı learned about her husband's adultery, she pleaded that he and İmdat marry after she died. 

After the three came from the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir to Istanbul for surgery, İmdat insisted that she donate a kidney to save Avcı. “We shared a husband, and now we shared a kidney,” said the patient. İmdat promised to continue taking care of Meliha Avcı after the surgery.(Link | Via)

Top 10 Most Popular Plastic Surgery Procedures in the World

It used to be that only celebrities and wealthy housewives underwent cosmetic surgery… but not anymore! Today people of all ages, backgrounds, and income-levels are going under the knife to enhance their looks. Plastic surgery is a booming industry with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Below is a list of the top 10 plastic surgery procedures, compiled by PlasticSurgerySpot.com using statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
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1. Liposuction: This popular procedures is used to remove excess fat from the body, neck, and chin. When done right the results are impressive, when done wrong lumps can occur.

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Kangana Ranaut After her lips surgery

How To Make An Artificial Eye

How To Make An Artificial Eye

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5 Medicinal Uses for Common Animal Venoms

Whether you're talking about Spider-man's archenemy or the deadly poisons that animals and insects use to kill their prey, venom most often conjures up negative thoughts. Spider bites, snakebites, bee stings: All of these frighten us, and it's not only about the pain of getting bitten, but also the potentially harmful toxins. But as it turns out, some venoms may be actually be beneficial to human health. Venoms contain hundreds of different ingredients, some of which are not the harmful toxins we assume them to be. Venoms are extremely biologically active and these chemical concoctions provide a great natural resource for researchers to study different chemicals, some of which can be developed into drugs. From scorpions and spiders to snakes and bees, many other researchers are finding ways to bring out the positive in poison. Here's a look at five recent examples of venom as medicine.

Deathstalker Scorpion Venom for Brain Cancer

Deathstalker Scorpion, Leiurus Quinquestriatus (Photo by Furryscaly/Flickr)

The deathstalker scorpion, native to North Africa and the Middle East, is highly dangerous because of its venom—a neurotoxin powerful enough to kill a child or elderly person, often by causing pulmonary edema.

Japanese Robotic Vagina Makes Childbirth Even More Horrifying

Japanese Robotic Vagina Makes Childbirth Even More Horrifying

Unbelievable Truth- A Saint Survive 70 Years Without Food and Water

Seven decades have passed without any food or water claims a man 83 years of age.  Indian doctors have recently started experiments on him in hopes of improving survivor skills training for men in the military. Doctors for military men hope that their experiments on Prahlad Jani will help soldiers better their survivor strategies.

In a hospital in the western city of Ahmedabad, the long hair and bearded Gujarati man is under twenty-four hour surveillance among testing by thirty doctors.  This testing will go on for three weeks straight. In addition to two cameras set up in his hospital room, he has a mobile camera attached to him for when he leaves his hospital room.  This will guarantee complete validity to his claims of abstinence from any food or water for seventy years.

The Treatment of Kidney Transplant

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The Hand of Hope, 7 years Later (2 pics)

The Hand of Hope, 7 years Later
This is a snapshot of the unborn baby's age - 21 weeks, and it operates with a surgeon named Joseph Bruner. Infant was diagnosed with Spina bifida, and he would not have survived if he had learned from the mother's womb. Therefore, the surgeon removes the uterus via C-section and makes her a small incision to operate on the baby without taking him out of the uterus. When Dr. Bruner graduated operate Little Samuel, boy stuck his tiny but fully developed little hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger.

There is Hope for the Rest of Us

There is Hope for the Rest of Us

This disabled couple proves that there is hope for the rest of us. He has no arms and she has no legs but what they are able to accomplish is remarkable. She takes care of him good and he’s able to do almost everything with his feet. Moreover, in their everyday life they do all the housework without any help from the others. They are an amazing couple. More images after the break...

Strange facts-Six year old girl who has had three hearts

Strange facts-Six year old girl who has had three hearts

At the age of six, Amy Ferguson is already on her third heart.

She lost the first to a rare condition at the age of two and her body rejected the replacement, leading to a second transplant. Several times she proved doctors wrong when they said they did not expect her to live.

Now she is in training for her school sports day and determined to do well.

Frog-like Baby Was Born In Nepal

A frog-like baby was born in Nepal two years ago but died after half an hour of its birth. I pity the baby; his father didn’t care about the baby’s death and parading the poor freak in a pot around the streets.