Standing Tall

It has been a while since I last posted anything here. I have loads of ideas and want to share it with all of you. But my personal life has demanded most of my attention this summer, so here we go again.

Recently I have been in practice at an Orthopedic Ward, a Trauma Ward. Here all the Patients who have broken any part of their body's bonestructure get admitted after going through the Emergency Room.
A huge number of them have surgeries to fix the broken bones and realign them. This is very traumatic surgery, since the surgeons offen have to break the bone to set it back in position again.

Seeing these patients with casts and crutches has made me think just how far we've come with being able to get people back to their lives, instead of being sick. We used to have people with broken legs lying in a bed until it was completely healed. Meaning you where bedridden for up to 8-10 weeks.
Now they are home within days and getting their routines back.

Much worse of are the people who end up with spinal cord injuries. Sudden loss of limb function is not easy. But getting them on their feet has so far been impossible. So we've put them in wheelchairs and just said "roll".
The new technologies being developed by the military, intended to add substantial strength to otherwise ordinary soldiers. Has proven a great resource for the field of rehabilitation.

We are taking baby steps, but the tecnologi is here and getting better daily.

What I'm talking about is the evention called eLegs. It is an exosceleton that mimics the motion of walking simply by assessing the motion the wearer makes. This has all sorts of positive benefits for a patient.

Getting the muscles activated actually limits and withholds some of the muscle mass that you loose from not using the limb. Your digestive system is essentially triggered by body movement, so indegestion will be a problem no more.
The major benifit is that with this system, you would be able to live a life fairly similar to the one you had before the accident.

I can't wait to see what this turns into and how soon it will be comercially available. I think we'll see this in rehabilitation facilities very soon.

Thank you Cali Lewis for showing me this.

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