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Chloé wearing her new prosthesis while several people make adjustments to the socket. So if providers don’t catch up with the latest, it’s likely that it won’t become available to their patients.

It’s usually up to providers to work with us, informing us of our options. There’s no magic catalog that puts everything that’s out there all in one place for amputees to browse. But on numerous occasions, I was not presented with all of my options because it was something my prosthetist was unfamiliar with manipulating. I was working with one of the leading and well-reputed clinics in the U.S.

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Having undergone a special course to learn how to work with these newer approaches to prosthesis construction, Harvey raised the idea that old-school methods of prosthesis-building are a huge catalyst in inhibiting access to the most customized options. A lot of prosthetists still practice old-school techniques and don’t know how to work with 3-D printed parts or even assemble them,” prosthetist and orthotist Zach Harvey, who is certified by the Association of Boards of Certification, told me. “The technology itself still hasn’t caught up. The rise of 3-D printing, which offers highly personalized options, has given amputees the best chance of achieving customizable function and fit, but many still cannot access what they need. There are myriad reasons why appearance also contributes to use and function. Whereas right now, the thought is, if it works, then it doesn’t matter if the fit is perfect. But it also highlights that finding a limb with the correct fit aesthetically will significantly contribute to the wearer’s ability to call that device an honest extension of themselves. Sure, it’s a movie, and we have certainly not attained that level of function in a prosthetic limb. But the designs in the real world left behind the visual mastery that made Luke’s bionic arm a seamless part of the character. Artificial limbs took off trying to reach the functional equivalent of that which Luke Skywalker received in “The Empire Strikes Back.” After Darth Vader severs Luke’s hand, the droids rebuild his arm as a visually-stunning masterpiece indistinguishable from a real arm in both form and function. It’s a good goal, but it has spiraled into a mindset that too often has patients choosing function over appearance. One big contributing factor to the issue is the excessive focus on function. That has never worked on clothing, so why should it be a good idea when re-creating parts of the human body altogether? A tiny, greenish-tinged prosthetic hand resting perfectly inside Chloé’s palm. The socket (the part of the prosthesis that covers your residual limb) is the only 100% custom portion, leaving many amputees left picking from ready-made selections when it comes to appendages and joints such as hands, feet, knees and elbows. They are meant to be custom-made to fit and balance the wearer’s body, but prosthetics are assembled from parts designed based on a one-size-fits-all standard. Ironically, prosthetics, built with disabled users in mind, are still not inclusive, leaving many prosthetic users devoid of the Goldilocks outcome that feels just right.