Thanks to this device, children improve their way of walking.
A group of scientists from the University of Northern Arizona in the United States created an exoskeleton that allows children to overcome squatting, a walking disorder caused by cerebral palsy.
Squatting is characterized by excessive knee flexion while walking, so the prosthetics of specialists changes the infants’ posture by means of bursts of extension at that point while they walk. Thanks to this, the knee extensor muscles remain active while using the device.
The little ones increase the length of the step and speed when walking, an action that demonstrated a good adaptation of children to the apparatus, avoiding many surgeries that are much more invasive.