{"id":68617,"date":"2019-05-07T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68617"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:48:26","slug":"26-05-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68617","title":{"rendered":"TECHNION UK CELEBRATES WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES ADVOCATE CLAIRE LOMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>TECHNION UK CELEBRATES WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES ADVOCATE CLAIRE LOMAS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Lomas, who was paralyzed after being thrown off by her horse while competing at Osberton Horse Trials, attended the event wearing a robotic bodysuit invented in Israel at the Technion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire Lomas. (photo credit: ADRIAN KORSNER)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Technion UK hosted Claire Lomas on Monday in honor of International Women\u2019s Day, which officially took place earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lomas, who was paralyzed after being thrown off by her horse while competing at Osberton Horse Trials, attended the event wearing a robotic bodysuit invented in Israel at the Technion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI walked the London Marathon wearing the robotic suit for Spinal Research” raising hundreds of thousands of pounds and much-needed worldwide publicity of spinal injuries, Lomas told the group. \u201cThe best years of my life have been since I had my accident. I never thought that would happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve met so many people, including prime ministers, and I met them all at eye level,\u201d she continued. \u201cFor someone in a wheelchair, it feels amazing.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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Lomas can \u201cmeet them at eye level\u201d because of the robotic suit, which was developed at the Technion by Dr Amit Goffer, who is a quadriplegic himself. After an accident in 1997, he  wanted to create something that would allow wheelchair users to walk, climb stairs and stand eye-to-eye with others. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first suit, used by Lomas, is designed for people with lower limb disabilities as an upright day-to-day alternative to a wheelchair. It is a brace based on the concept of an “exoskeleton”.<\/span>Goffer has since developed additional suits, such as the better-known ReWalk body suit, a light wearable brace support suit with motors at the joint, rechargeable batteries, an array of sensors and a computer-based control system.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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TECHNION UK CELEBRATES WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES ADVOCATE CLAIRE LOMAS JERUSALEM POST STAFF Lomas, who was paralyzed after being thrown off by her horse while competing at Osberton Horse Trials, attended the event wearing a robotic bodysuit invented in Israel at the Technion. Claire Lomas. (photo credit: ADRIAN KORSNER) The Technion UK hosted Claire Lomas on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68667,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617\/revisions\/68667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}