MuSmate: helping MS patients to walk
June 21, 2006The device came about when Ken Armitage, a geophysicist, and his wife Anne, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, were hurrying to a pub that served an excellent cream tea. Because she walked so slowly, Ken worried they would miss the tea.
After putting his backpack on Anne, he attached one end of a bungee cord to the pack and the other to her foot.
Result? They made it for the tea, and MuSmate was born.
A variation of the idea might be of tremendous help to the elderly.
