Sentences with phrase «harness over a treadmill»
He also participates in the NRN's locomotor training program at Kessler, where he is harnessed over a treadmill while therapists move his legs in a walking motion in an effort to retrain his nervous system.
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Kessler is also one of seven centers in the Christopher and Dana Reeve NeuroRecovery Network, a program designed to retrain the nervous system through intensive repetitive locomotor training — during which the individual is harnessed over a treadmill as therapists move the legs in a walking motion.
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Now his team have replaced the treadmill with a robotic harness that holds the rat up on its hind legs, supporting it when it falls over but otherwise allowing it to stand and move independently — Courtine compares it to being held on either side by a pair of burly men.
Strapped into a harness and attached to sensors, Summers was lowered over a treadmill.
The patient is harnessed within the robotic exoskeleton over the treadmill and, once the machine is powered, leg supports move the individual's legs in a walking motion.