Self-balancing Personal Exoskeleton for SCI (site 2)

Eligibility Criteria

• * Any gender, age 18 years or older;
• * Motor complete or incomplete SCI with lesions at or above T6;
• * ≥ 6 months post SCI;
• * Able and willing to attend 9 to 10 visits1 to the center, including sessions of training and assessments of one-to-three hours duration;
• * Able to read, understand, and provide informed consent;
• * Living in the US and speaks English.
• * Diagnosis of neurological injury other than SCI;
• * Progressive condition that would be expected to result in changing neurological status;
• * Severe concurrent medical disease, illness or condition judged to be contraindicated by the site physician;
• * Unhealed or unstable traumatic or high impact lower extremity fracture of any duration that is, in the clinical judgement of the study physician, exclusionary for standing and walking;
• * Knee (proximal tibia and/or distal femur) BMD \<0.60 gm/cm2;
• * Total hip BMD T-scores \< -3.5;
• * Fragility, minimal trauma, or low impact fracture of the lower extremity since SCI;
• * Untreatable severe spasticity judged to be contraindicated by the site physician;
• * Untreated/uncontrolled hypertension, as judged to be contraindicated by the site physician;
• * Unresolved orthostatic hypotension (change from baseline seated BP to a fall in 20mmHg SBP and/or fall in 10mmHG DBP and symptoms when standing), or as judged to be contraindicated by the site physician;
• * Open or unhealed skin pressure sores, abrasions, or bruises at any of the contact points of the exoskeleton;
• * Morphological contraindications to the use of the device;
• * Uncorrectable leg length discrepancy over 2 cm (about 0.79 in) when using additional correction tools;
• * Unable to effectively operate the device with a hand-control interface, due to functional and/or cognitive impairment, evaluated based on the ability to manipulate the joystick in all direction, press and identify buttons on the hand control interface.
• * Improper fitting in the device;
• * Psychopathology documentation in the medical record that may conflict with study objectives;
• * Pregnancy or women who plan to become pregnant during the study period;
• * Concurrent participation in another interventional trial;
• * History of uncontrolled autonomic dysreflexia;
• * Presence colostomy and/or urostomy;
• * Ventilator use at the time of the exoskeleton use;
• * Insufficient strength and performance capability (the ability to transfer into/out of the device or perform other training tasks with assistance).