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Learning to walk again

Can robots help stroke patients learn to walk again? The neurologist Prof. Dr. Stefan Hesse from the Median Clinic in Berlin thinks so. As a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation of patients after a stroke, paraplegia or skull-brain trauma, he wants to help partially paralysed stroke patients regain their lost motor abilities as much as possible. To achieve this, training is very important. However, this training is enormously strenuous for the therapists, who hold, support and lead the patients. Now the Haptic Walker has taken over this task. The robot has been tested in clinical practice and meets real-life demands.