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Through new therapy, some partially paralyzed patients approach walking

It takes a body harness, a sophisticated exoskeleton and a quarter-million-dollar treadmill, but Albert Pruitt walks.
Pruitt, who has been partially paralyzed since 1976, is taking small steps, literally and figuratively, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Spinal Cord Injury Lab.
"It's almost like having a sense of freedom," says Pruitt, 44, who works for a software design company in Dallas. "It makes me feel better all around. Just feeling the sensation of walking is such a confidence-builder."
But that's not all. New research at UT Southwestern shows...

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posted @ Friday, January 20, 2006 12:00 AM by host

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