Throughout my capstone experience at Oak Hill Adaptive Sports & Fitness, I was able to witness and connect with people who dealt with different disorders or disabilities. I learnt how important exercising and even moving was for them to improve their quality of life.  I have always been fascinated by prosthetics because of their variety and their ability to return function back to a person. Along with all the pressure and forces involved in making a prosthetic stable, I am amazed by the engineers who make specific prosthetics for running, jumping, and even for animals. Combining my experience at Oak Hill to my own interests of prosthetics, I researched prosthetic treatment that focused on the different personality types. At Oak Hill, I was able to witness and observe the different personality types, not always in amputees, but in members of the gym that I connected with. 

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Just like the different types of prosthetics, there are different personality types. Personality types are important because it, “can be used to predict how a patient views their body so that physicians can better help the patient through the treatment process.”. Usual prosthetic treatment is based off of a stoic personality. Soldiers are an example of a stoic personality type,  “compared to the general public whose personality types range from sanguine, phlegmatic, to melancholic.” (4 primary temperaments, n.d.). The stoic personality type is very interesting because they, “show concern for nothing but the mind…” (Sherman, 2005), meaning they believe the mind is greater than the body. While this is the case for this personality type, the average civilian is completely different. A sanguine personality type actually, “connects both their body and mind as one.”. Unlike a stoic, a sanguine patient would have a negative outlook on a prosthetic since they struggle with incorporating the artificial limb as part of their body. A prosthetic is not for everyone and that is fine. The point of my research was to display how different everyone is and doctors should be aware of this fact. Introducing, explaining, and involving a prosthetic should be an informative experience for the patient rather than them feeling forced to do something.