Best Life: Robotic exoskeleton helps multiple sclerosis patients walk again

Cleveland, Ohio (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Multiple sclerosis, it’s an unpredictable disease that disrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body, slowly robbing many patients of their ability to walk, causing tremors, muscle paralysis numbness, and weakness. Now, a robotic exoskeleton may help retrain the brain and keep MS patients up and walking.

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Four days a week, this is where you will find Kathy Miska. “I have balance, I have buoyancy,” Miska said.

In the water, Miska can forget about her MS, a disease that claimed the life of her sister.

Miska told Ivanhoe, “Her last ten years of her life, she was a total vegetable. She couldn’t control her eyes. She couldn’t wiggle a finger.”

Now that same disease is slowly attacking Miska.

“It feels like you’re giving up a little bit of your independence,” she described.

In a move to regain her mobility, she strapped on a robotic exoskeleton to retrain her brain and her body to walk normally again.