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to walk better. “This technology can be used to build a lower limb model of a stroke survivor where we can measure the physiological cost of walking in terms of how much effort is needed to walk,” she said.
The father-of-two and grandfather-of-two suddenly suffered a stroke in December 2020 when he got up in the middle of the night for a drink and had no inclination what had happened. His wife Jane found him and realised he had had a stroke. The left side of Mr Cruickshank’s body was affected by the stroke and he couldn’t walk. His speech and memory were also affected. He is now able to walk a few steps, but his legs get very tired so he uses a wheelchair most of the time now.
Mr Cruickshank, who is a retired inland revenue worker, has had the infra-red camera technology used on him by Dr Jarvis and she identified that it wasn’t his quads that needed strengthening in his legs, but his hamstrings which weren’t doing their share of the work. His wife Jane said: “What we found was that after someone has a stroke, they get the community physiotherapists, who have a one-size fits all approach and give everybody the same exercises, regardless of their age, what kind of stroke they have had and how it has affected them.
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