From today Valentina Pitzalis, disfigured in 2011 by her husband who threw petrol at her, has a new generation bionic hand that allows her to move her fingers and lift weights. This is Nexus, the most advanced bionic hand in the world, made on an English project and applied, for the first time in Italy, at the Maria Adelaide Orthopedic Workshop in Turin, national leader in the prosthesis sector. "The Nexus technology marks an epochal transition compared to previous prostheses - explains the director of the workshop, Roberto Ariagno - it is easily applied, is personalized and is articulated by reading, through sensors, the muscular movements of the forearm". The extraordinary hand slips on like a glove, without the need for any surgery,and has 14 positions made possible by a patient-operated micropulsor.
"I'm here to tell all women that with strength and courage we can change the world and ourselves, so that nothing of the kind happens to anyone anymore", says the woman, who has been involved in Italian schools for years to raise awareness boys on the subject of violence against women.
"Today for me is a fantastic day - he adds - and if they are, or come this far it is because of all the people, and they are many, who for ten years help me. It 'important that women are never left alone.
If someone had explained certain things to me before, maybe I would never have come to suffer all this ".