Comments on: Paraplegic Walking in Leg Braces News Broadcast

By: Reissumies

Reissumies — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:45:34 +0000

Good on you mate, your situation has lot of parallels with mine.
I had a paragliding accident 11 years ago and gave up using wheelchair 3 years later.
Now my life is much easier but I have to make it harder at times to keep on improving.

Cheers
Haykey

By: thebones

thebones — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:15:03 +0000

well done man, they should explain that high level paras can’t achieve this level of mobility. I used a ‘douglas brace’ with crutches from 1985-2000, I’m a t#7 level injury and eventually stopped ‘walking’, it just became too hard as I got older. Low back injuries t#12-L1 etc. find walking after spinal injury much easier than high level injuries. I have problems with my shoulders now but I’m glad I did it. There should be a cure for paraplegia but there is nothing in it for the drug companies.

By: shooting44mag

shooting44mag — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:18:36 +0000

Keep up the GOOD WORK! Im also a parapalegic & have just been using a cane since about 1999. Doctors made me legg braces but I felt that they were holding me back, wich I belive they were. My accedent happened in 5-13-98 to this day I just mostly use a cane, so yes you can do it. I balance myself on my heels, so when I walk Im basically walking on my heels, I could not use my tipies to save my life.