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Marlborough Company Helping People Walk Again
WBUR recently featured Marlborough company ReWalk, which has come up with technology to help paraplegics walk again.
ReWalk Robotics has built a motorized exoskeleton that is giving those with spinal cord injuries a chance to walk again. In June, this device got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Recently, WBUR reported on this miraculous invention in the medical world.
WBUR’s Jamie Bologna produced this story.
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ReWalk Marlborough is the U.S. headquarters of an Israeli-based company, Argo Medical Technologies. In this report, an Army veteran who has been confined to a wheelchair demonstrates the device. He fell from a ladder while working on a house, and has been unable to walk ever since. Now, he can get on his feet - as he took part in ReWalk’s clinical study of an exoskeleton that includes leg braces, motors, Velcro and remote control, said WBUR.
According to sci-info-pages, at least 250,000 Americans suffer from a spinal cord injury.
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