NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Nashville antheral is fundraising wealth for a instrumentality to assistance him locomotion and helium hopes to assistance others too.
Eric Murray was successful a car mishap successful 2012. He said helium continues to bash therapy, walking with braces and a walker, waiting for thing to travel on to assistance those with spinal cord injuries.
He recovered retired astir the ReWalk Exoskeleton aft seeing idiosyncratic utilizing it connected Facebook.
"The battery-powered strategy features a light, wearable exoskeleton with motors astatine the hep and genu joints. The ReWalker controls question utilizing subtle changes successful his/her halfway of gravity," ReWalk's website said.
Murray said helium talked to ReWalk, got into a fewer trials and present helium is trying to get his ain exoskeleton. He said a caller 1 costs astir $120,000. He thinks helium has raised astir $10,000.
He has been moving with the nonprofit Help Hope Live, to rise much wealth for the device.
"For 38 years, Help Hope Live has been showing clients and families however to bring unneurotic a web of relatives, friends, and neighbors successful fundraising efforts to assistance screen the outgo of uncovered aesculapian expenses. These efforts play a captious relation successful helping our clients retrieve and support their wellness and independence," the nonprofit said.
On Thursday, a fundraising play tournament is acceptable astatine Nashboro Golf Course with the wealth benefiting Murray's ReWalk Exoskeleton. There volition beryllium golf, a soundless auction, food, euphony and more. Murray wants it to beryllium an yearly tourney and yet assistance others get a ReWalk Exoskeleton.
"When I archetypal enactment the suit connected and I was capable to basal up conscionable the alleviation of being capable to recognize however gangly I was due to the fact that I'm really six feet, truthful to beryllium capable to basal up and look oculus to oculus with different idiosyncratic was everything to me," Murray said.
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