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The brain usually sends a signal to the muscle, but now the muscle is also sending its own signal that helps re-wire the injured brain. this one? they call it the superman device. learning to walk without the burden of my body weight. >> 30% of your body weight has been taken out. >> this is really for somebody thats been bed ridden for a long time. maybe taking their first steps. or weakness. and really needs to start walking for the first time. surprisingly, this shopping cart is also used as ...

And sometimes can cause very widespread devastation. >> and lift a bounce house. >> and people will go along and see the damage and say this must be a tornado but it can be caused bay microburst. >> fascinating. >> winds strong in parts of the country today, but not in the same places. up in the northern plains and you can see plain as day all the white falling in parts of north dakota, south dakota and even into nebraska and portions at this point of minnesota. take a look at this. not only sno...

This one is the superman device. learning to walk without the burden of my body weight. >> 30% of your body weight has been taken out. >> this is for somebody who has been bedridden for a long time, taking their first steps to somebody with weakness in one limb or the other and really needs to start walking for the first time. surprisingly, the shopping cart is used as part of therapy. take a look, julie is helping, for example if i had right leg weakness, moving my leg along preventing me from ...

>> reporter: surprisingly, the shopping cart is also used as part of therapy. take a look here. obviously julie helping if i have right leg weakness, moving my leg along, preventing me from falling. >> i said okay, you say len, its pen, use your lips. >> reporter: now remember, with congresswoman giffords, speech is also a concern. especially since she has a trache and learning to use it is part of therapy. >> this is what sticks out on the patient. what we have here is a speaking valve. if they...

Is moving its predicting which muscle should be using and its giving that muscle stimulations. they call this the superman device, learning to walk without the burden of my body weight. surprisingly this shopping cart is also used as part of therapy. take a look here, obviously julie helping, for example, if i had right leg weakness, really sort of moving my leg along, preventing me from falling. heres the thing, all these different therapies work together. music isnt just rehabilitating the min...

>> it will start to feel like tingling in your calf. >> reporter: but this bike doesnt let you forget. these little cords here attach to the muscles in my leg. as my leg is moving, its predicting which muscle should be using and giving that muscle a stimulation. they call this the superman device. learning to walk without the burden of my body weight. >> 30% of your body weight has been taken out. >> reporter: surprisingly, the shopping cart is also used as part of therapy. take a look here. obv...

Has suffered a catastrophic injury. >> after a brain injury or stroke, there is a tendency for the patient to forget one side of the body. >> reporter: just neglect it? >> just neglect it. >> reporter: but this bike doesnt let you forget. as my leg is moving, its predicting which muscle should be using and giving that muscle a stimulation. they call this the superman device. learning to walk without the burden of my body weight. >> 30% of your body weight has been taken out. >> reporter: surpris...

Preventing me from falling. heres the thing, all these different therapies work together. music isnt just rehabilitating the mind, its also teaching patients to walk. and sometimes -- >> ill give them a song to kind of get their mind off of the pain. ♪ oh, when the saints go marching in ♪ kind of like that. >> it was so interesting and the therapy is all built one on the other. its not like music therapy here, speech, physical. they all sort of have overlap in terms of what they accomplish. ...

Shopping cart is also used as part of therapy. take a look here. obviously julie helping if i have right leg weakness, moving my leg along, preventing me from falling. >> okay, its pen, use your lips. >> reporter: now remember, with congresswoman giffords, speech is also a concern. especially since she has a trache and learning to use it is part of therapy. >> what we have here is a speaking valve. if theyre tolerating that, well try to get them to speak. >> reporter: but hears the thing. all th...

Were a patient of dr. francisco and his team. this seems like a pretty long day. >> it is a long day. after a brain injury or a stroke there is a tendency for the patient to forget one side of the body. >> reporter: just neglect it. >> just neglect it. >> reporter: but this bike doesnt let you forget. these are little cords here are attached to my muscle in my leg, and as my leg is moving its sort of predicting which muscle should be use and its giving that muscle a stimulation. they call this t...