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Powered exoskeleton
Powered exoskeleton
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What this is
A wearable frame with motors at the hips and knees that moves the person's legs and lets them stand and walk with crutches or a walker for balance.
What problem it is trying to solve
Many consequences of the injury come from not standing: bone, bowel, circulation, skin. This approach provides an upright position and stepping today, without waiting for the cord to recover.
How it is supposed to work
The device does not change the spinal cord. It replaces the movement mechanically; whether regular use changes anything in the person is a separate question being tested.
Limits and known risks
It requires working arms and balance, a suitable body size and joint mobility. Known risks are falls, skin rubbing and breakdown, and fractures where bone is weak. The device is expensive, slow, and does not replace a wheelchair in daily life.
What is still missing
What is missing: evidence about health during long-term use at home, rather than step counts in a gym.
Where this is known from: MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NIH) · nobody has yet read that source against these sentences
Found in the sources and not yet checked
Records the sources hold about this approach that nobody has read yet. They are not evidence and are not counted anywhere on this page.
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Studies
No study in this corpus is linked to this approach yet.
Nothing has been retrieved and curated for it. That is a fact about this corpus, not about the science: work on this approach exists and is simply not held here yet.