00:02Bruce Tran wants to be a journalist when he grows up.
00:05I'm nine years old and I have cerebral palsy.
00:08First, he wants to get back on his feet more often.
00:11Perth Children's Hospital's new Zero-G Harness, the perfect aid.
00:15It is the only one that is in a paediatric hospital within Australia
00:19and the nature of dynamic body weight support
00:21means that you can have children who move more freely.
00:24The Zero-G Harness partially supports a child's body weight,
00:27reducing the effect of gravity, allowing kids to walk
00:31and even run with a safety net.
00:33The device can follow children around the room as they move
00:36and the body weight support can stay the same as they move dynamically.
00:40So as they move from the floor up into standing, for example,
00:44the robot will respond to that
00:46and provide them with the same amount of body support throughout that movement.
00:49A blessing for Tara Sharp and her twin daughters, Rosa and Eve,
00:53both born with cerebral palsy.
00:54For our kids, they're in therapy for their lives.
01:01So yeah, it's nice when they get the opportunity to do something
01:04that's a bit different and give some other things a go.
01:08So what we're hoping to do is to build new rehabilitation protocols
01:13using this machine.
01:14So figuring out what's the best way of using it, who's it the best for
01:18and be able to adapt that more widely.
01:20Experts hope it could help reshape children's rehab into the future.
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