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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsShe Wanted To Help Her Disabled Son Walk. But This Mom’s Invention Just Might Change Everything.
Necessity is the mother of invention and this is especially true of one mother who set out to help her young boy with cerebral palsy. Debby Elnatan is a music therapist and mother who came up with an idea that could change lives of thousands of wheelchair-using children around the world.
After doctors told her her son Rotem had no understanding of how his legs worked, Debby cried for a week after and then tried to find something that could help him and ended up inventing a harness that attaches to an adult and allows the child to stand upright and walk.
http://www.reshareworthy.com/harness-helps-disabled-children/
sendero
(28,552 posts)... is bound to make anyone smile
If they could just make this for old men...
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Hotler
(11,412 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)is the MOTHER of all invention.
Wonderful.
EC
(12,287 posts)neccessity and a mother's love.
mopinko
(70,069 posts)does not use the word mother for nothing. and when you think about how sexist our language is, you know there is a goooood reason.
go mom. what a thing!
Demeter
(85,373 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)I bet this little boy and many people will get great benefits from this.
I wonder if they could modify it to help people such as myself to learn how to dance (love music, dance like someone not attached to their body!)
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
-- Mark Twain
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)human spirit, and a dash of ingenuity.
Love it!
SunSeeker
(51,547 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)marzipanni
(6,011 posts)I recommend this, from Upworthy~
http://www.ted.com/talks/maysoon_zayid_i_got_99_problems_palsy_is_just_one