We talked about the artificial hip which is a modern precursor of the splint I talked about before.

我们之前说到的人造髋关节,就是由固定腿部的夹板衍生而来

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So biomedical engineers have been working for many years on how to design replacement parts for joints like the hip: the artificial hip is the most well developed of those.

因此,生物医学工程师花了很多年时间,致力于设计像髋关节这样的关节替代品,尤以人工髋关节的研究最为成熟

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So now somebody can get an artificial hip and they can live for many decades with it and have almost full function of that hip over that period of time.

所以现在患者可以使用人造髋关节,再活上几十年,而且几乎和正常人没一点差别

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We live in a gravitational field and that it affects our day to day life, and if you have hip pain or a hip that's diseased in some way, and you can't stand up against that gravitational field in the same way, that severely limits what you can do in the world.

我们生活在一个重力场中,这个场影响着我们的日常生活,如果你的髋关节疼痛,或者有其他髋关节疾病的话,就不能像平常一样,站在这个重力场中了,这严重限制了人的活动能力

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You can imagine that there are many requirements that a device like this has to meet in order for it to be a good artificial hip and we'll talk about those and how the design of these has changed over the years and what we can expect in the future.

你可以想象,这种装置对技术要求极高,这样它才能成为,一个好的人工髋关节,我们会讲到这些,以及这些年来这项技术的设计有哪些改进,在未来会有怎样的创新

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