A Robotic Suit Is Helping Paralyzed People Feel Their Legs Again

"This is very cutting edge," said Ela Plow, researcher at Cleveland FES Center and assistant professor at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner College of Medicine. "Telling the patient that they are completely injured is a very difficult process, because that means almost telling them that they have no potential for recovery. But then they took these patients and gave them long-term retraining through a mix of techniques and realized that they could generate a process of partial recovery.