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Prosthetic activity can help those who have a deficiency in the foot. During this false leg only be used by humans. But, what if the fake leg bears an elephant?
This is experienced by Mosha, three-year-old elephant who lives in Lampang, Thailand. Mosha had lost his right foot before him since the age of seven months due to fall in a mine.
Luckily, when the accident Mosha lives could be saved. He was rushed to hospital Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) in Lampang in 2007. FAE is the only elephant hospital in the world.
In fact, with only three legs, Mosha seems inferior mingle with the other elephants in the hospital. I was so insecure and stressful, Mosha refused to touch food.
The team doctors who deal with conditions such Mosha worried. Until one time Mosha met with Dr. Therdchai Jivacate, who runs the foundation of human amputation, Prostheses Foundation. Dr Jivacate really know Mosha will not be safe because he will grow according to age. "If you can not walk, he will die," explained Jivacate.
During these foundations Jivacate makes prosthetic limbs for more than 16,000 people. However, they never make it to the elephant to attract attention Jivacate Mosha.
After going through a special research, eventually the team doctor at the Prostheses Foundation succeeded in making artificial limbs for Mosha. Prosthetic was made of a mixture of plastic materials, sawdust, and iron, which enables them to maintain their body weight Mosha. Prosthetic limbs for the first time in the world subject to an elephant.
Many elephants are treated in hospital. Some infections, fractures, or knee injury. But in between the elephants occupants of the hospital, which eventually Moshalah famous, especially with his artificial leg.
Because of the artificial leg, too, feel inferior and Mosha stress fade away. About a year after surgery he was doing, Mosha want to eat every day. He also grown bigger so that team doctors had made him a new prosthetic larger and more powerful. Mosha now more diligent activity. After playing around, he usually rest and sleep. He removed his artificial leg every sleep.
"Mosha was already supposed to be able to live longer and happier. He grew with confidence and now he is happy to be playing with other colleagues, "said Soraida Salwala, one of the FAE staff.
Currently Mosha still living in the FAE. Previously, he was living in a tropical forest in northern Thailand near the Cambodian border. Mosha now also become a new symbol of resistance to the use of a prohibited weapon.
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