When you lift your foot up to take a step, a muscle on your shin contracts that allows you to lift your toes up to take a step. Someone who has had some kind of brain injury might have weakened that muscle and the WalkAide compensates for that lost strength. Over time, the WalkAide will strengthen that muscle and ultimately, the child or teenager will be able to lift up his/her foot to walk without this machine some day.  

In addition to strengthening the muscle, the WalkAide assists with coordinating the timing of the muscle contraction. When someone experiences a brain injury, the timing of when various muscles fire is sometimes impeded. So they don’t fire at the time when you need them to. The WalkAide also assists that, firing off at the precise moment you need to flex your foot. Maybe the greatest thing about this machine is it is small, user friendly and wireless, so it’s not cumbersome and once your muscle strength is increased, really easy to use all day!