Father's Homemade Machine Helps Disabled Son to Walk

By Andrew Norris Friday, November 11, 2011

Health - General

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Boy walks with fathers inventionA seven-year-old Argentine boy has defied doctors' predictions that he would never walk, with help from a homemade rehabilitation device built by his father.

The first version of the machine designed for Ivo Cardile, who has been severely brain damaged from birth, was built in just a month out of a bicycle and wooden planks.

 

(WATCH or READ the story at the BBC)


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