Four years ago, Mike Loura was struck by a car while riding his bike and became paralyzed. Today, he walked again for the first time thanks to a robotic exoskeleton: "...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/12/Exoskeleton-Helps-Paralyzed-Man-Walk-Again/
Photo: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Scientists have a breakthrough in spinal injury research: they were able to teach paralyzed rats with spinal cord injury to walk again...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/01/paralyzed-rat-with-spinal-cord-injury-can-walk-again/
Dutch athlete Monique van der Vorst became paralyzed from the hip down during a surgical operation when she was 13 years old, and used a wheelchair afterward. She also suffered a spinal cord injury in 2008. Meanwhile, s...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/08/paralympian-eyes-olympics/
Martin Mireles has been paralyzed from the neck down for nearly twenty years. He can maneuver a mobility chair by steering it with his mouth, but a new magnetic tongue stud developed by researchers at the Northwestern Un...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/09/a-tongue-stud-can-give-paralyzed-people-greater-control-over-mobility-devices/
A hit-and-run accident five years ago left Rob Summers paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors said he would never walk again, but thanks to a new type of therapy, he can now stand on his own. Summers' injury disrupted t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/paralyzed-man-stands-up/
Charlie and Spike are two very cute kittens that a... ...ns respond by collapsing and falling into a rigid paralysis which lasts about a minute before they return to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/27/fainting-goat-kittens/
Israeli researchers have developed an interface that can be controlled by breathing through the nose. This technology could be used to help people with limited mobility gain more independence: The "sniff controller,"...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/27/nasal-controller-lets-the-paralyzed-operate-machinery-by-sniffing/(YouTube Link) Hayden Allen hasn't walked in five years, but in this video, he's able to move around using a new type of exoskeleton called REX: Called REX, short for "robotic exoskeleton", the legs weigh 38 kg (84...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/15/functional-exoskeleton-for-the-disabled/
After a football injury at the age of sixteen, Jamie Cap became paralyzed from the neck down. Now, thirty years later, he controls a shotgun attached to his wheelchair with a breathing tube. Getting legal permission wa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/13/quadriplegic-hunter-controls-shotgun-with-beathing-tube/(YouTube Link) Sixteen-year old Daniel Pelletier is paralyzed from the waist down and has endured twenty-five surgeries during his recovery, but he doesn't let that stop him from being an accomplished skateboarder....
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/26/daniel-pelletier-paraplegic-skateboarder/
