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Hybrid Assistive Limb technology gives hope to spinal injury patients to move again
ABC Illawarra
/ By Ainslie Drewitt-Smith and Justin Huntsdale
Posted 12h ago12 hours agoSun 6 Mar 2022 at 5:29am
Kyle Montgomery says robotic exoskeleton technology has been very effective.(ABC Illawarra: Justin Huntsdale)
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Kyle Montgomery is coming to terms with his quadriplegia, but technology designed to restore his neural pathways gives him hope that it may not be the same forever.
Key points:
- Kyle Montgomery suffered a spinal cord injury while training at his NSW gym in 2019
- He is using Hybrid Assisted Limb technology to help return some of his movement
- The exoskeleton reads the signals from the brain and compensates for any weakness in [...]