Thursday, February 14, 2019

Rehab: day 1,000,482

(Or something like that!)

Have I mentioned that the recovery from this surgery is a long road? Well, if I haven't, I have now.

And yet, there is still measureable progress steadily happening. Here's a glimpse of the work on the robot two days ago:
Last week she walked for three minutes with the support of the sling, but doing all of the motions with her own muscles - no help from the robot itself!

On Tuesday, she went six minutes, and then did the rest of her session with the robotic legs, and then today when she and Dad got home I asked how it went, and she said that it was still six minutes, but they had her carrying a higher percentage of her own body weight.

As you can see, she's getting some help with positioning her feet, as the legs still have a tendency to want to pull in and cross, but she's doing all of the lifting and stepping forward - and those are nice big steps!!!

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