Twin 2, the exoskeleton that allows you to walk after paralysis

2024-02-23 14:56:36
Imagine you have lost the use of your legs after a car accident. Imagine the pain and then the desperation for a life that promises to be all uphill. Now imagine putting on a pair of “robotic limbs” and being able to walk again instead. Not in a hypothetical future, but today. This is what is happening to Alex Santucci, a 49-year-old employee from Bologna (see the interview below). First in the gym and then in the paths of the Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute in Imola. He is one of the “pilot” patients who accompanied technicians and researchers throughout the planning and testing period (also carried out at Villa Beretta in Costa Masnaga, in the province of Lecco) of “Twin 2”, the latest exoskeleton model created from Rehab Tech, joint laboratory Iit Genoa and Inail Prosthetic Center of Vigorso di Budrio. To find a “therapy” capable of restoring movement to patients with spinal cord injuries, so-called neural interfaces are being studied in various parts of the world (Neuralink, that of the tycoon Elon Musk, is only the most celebrated by the media). But we are still at an experimental level. To date, therefore, exoskeletons constitute the only device that allows these patients to achieve autonomous walking.
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