What happens if you live in China and are run over by a truck so severely that you lose everything from the waist down? A hundred years ago, not much. Today, thanks to some amazing medical ground-breakers, there is hope. This man can 'walk' again!Doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing found out about Mr Peng's plight late last year and devised a plan to get him up walking again.
They came up with an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body with two bionic legs attached to it.
He has been taking his first steps around the centre with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame.
Mr Peng, who has to learn how to walk again, is said to be delighted with the device.
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