A woman has given a fascinating insight into what?it¡¯s really like to live life with a bionic arm.
Kayla Maria G, who is a model and a dancer, has quite a following on social?media handles, where she?regularly shares her experiences?of what it¡¯s like to perform everyday tasks with her futuristic arm.
Many videos on her Instagram?show Kayla skipping, playing Jenga, shaking hands with someone for the first time and adapting to using the weights machine at the gym.?In one of the videos, she shows what happens when her arm powers down mid-task, leaving her with no choice but to simply take it off.
In one video, Kayla explained about her incredible arm: "A myoelectric prosthetic means that I¡¯m able to control the functionality of this bebionic hand with my muscles through the sensors."
She then goes on to show how she can actually close her hand, before ¡®switching to a different function¡¯ with apparent ease, adding that despite the fluidity of the motion ¡®it¡¯s not connected to my brain¡¯, with sensors inside the arm sensing her muscles.??
Kayla was born with amniotic band syndrome, a condition when fibrous bands of the amniotic sac (the lining inside the uterus that contains a fetus) get tangled around a developing fetus.
In rare cases, the bands wrap around the fetus¡¯ head or umbilical cord. Most of the time, the bands wrap around an arm, leg, fingers, or toes.
Kayla has stated that she¡¯s not comfortable being called an amputee because she wasn't born this way. "I never had a full limb to lose one, if you know what I mean. So I like to be called limb different," she says.?
With her great sense of humour and friendly, informative style, Kayla has more than 50,000 followers on Instagram, as well as over 140,000 on TikTok. Her accounts are filled with content covering everything from fashion to inspirational messages to others living with limb differences.??
And, she is no small-time model, as she has previously modelled for Tommy Hilfiger and Pretty Little Thing.?
Kayla Maria G continues to inspire many people like her. She has overcome the hindrances to fulfil her dreams and there's no stopping her. She continues to aim big and aim far.??
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