Filed by Roselyne Min with Agence France-Presse, 20 October 2022 19:40 GMT+2.
Excerpt:
>This is David’s third time trying the Atlas 2030 pediatric exoskeleton as part of physical therapy sessions, and Cardoso can already see the improvement.
>The Atlas 2030 paediatric exoskeleton is specially designed for children between 3 and 14 years old. It supports the child from the trunk to the feet without thoracic control.
>Its creator Elena García Armada won the 2022 European Inventor Award.
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>After Spain and France, Mexico is the third country to offer treatment with the device.
>”We are seeing results with the children, and we want to continue working and empowering, so that more children in the city and the country have access to this type of rehabilitation, because we are always receiving children who need neurorobotic rehabilitation and that radically changes their lives,” said APAC director Guadalupe Maldonado.
>According to Maldonado, the wearable robot helps achieve “in record time” the rehabilitation goals that would take months to achieve with conventional therapies, such as strengthening muscles and improving patients’ digestive and pulmonary systems.
>But above all, she says the device provides a remarkable boost to their morale.
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Filed by Roselyne Min with Agence France-Presse, 20 October 2022 19:40 GMT+2.
Excerpt:
>This is David’s third time trying the Atlas 2030 pediatric exoskeleton as part of physical therapy sessions, and Cardoso can already see the improvement.
>The Atlas 2030 paediatric exoskeleton is specially designed for children between 3 and 14 years old. It supports the child from the trunk to the feet without thoracic control.
>Its creator Elena García Armada won the 2022 European Inventor Award.
>
>After Spain and France, Mexico is the third country to offer treatment with the device.
>”We are seeing results with the children, and we want to continue working and empowering, so that more children in the city and the country have access to this type of rehabilitation, because we are always receiving children who need neurorobotic rehabilitation and that radically changes their lives,” said APAC director Guadalupe Maldonado.
>According to Maldonado, the wearable robot helps achieve “in record time” the rehabilitation goals that would take months to achieve with conventional therapies, such as strengthening muscles and improving patients’ digestive and pulmonary systems.
>But above all, she says the device provides a remarkable boost to their morale.
Submitted 21 October 2022 09:00 GMT+2.
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