After being paralysed in a motorbike accident, Harold, 79, was determined to defy medical opinion.
By Paul PigottA motorcyclist paralysed in a crash and told he would never walk again has taken his first steps with robotic legs originally developed for US soldiers.
It was on 11 June 2021 that Harold's life changed forever when he broke his neck in a crash 12 miles from his home in Griffithstown, Torfaen. "But having lived with Harold for 50-odd years, I knew he wasn't going to give up and he kept saying in the meetings, 'I'm going to walk'." It means Harold can walk from one end of the clinic to the other, getting the repetitions needed to learn to walk again.
"It is very important to keep the positive mindset after catastrophic injury and the outlook is bleak," he said.Harold is shy about going out in public in a wheelchair, with wife Sybil saying he sometimes struggles to accept he has a disability But better rehabilitation would ultimately mean less pressure on acute services, Prof Playford added.
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