MOTIONrehab client, Alf Limb has been featured in the Wakefield Express following the launch of MOTIONrehab's Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centre in Leeds.
A Crofton man is learning to walk again thanks to state-of-the-art robotics.
Alf Limb, a 77-year-old former butcher is one of the patients of a new neuro rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Leeds, which is offering fresh hope to people whose lives have been dramatically restricted by disability. Before the pioneering new facility – the only one of its kind in the UK and run by MOTIONrehab – Alf was only able to manage a few steps across his living room on a zimmer frame, with the support of a physiotherapist and his wife Judith following immediately behind with his wheelchair should he fall over. But in his two attempts on a robotic gait trainer’ called Lyra at the facility this week, Alf has managed to do the equivalent of well over 100m each time – far outstripping what he has previously been able to achieve.
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