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The other evening I attended a talk given by nutritionist Leslie Beck.
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In Canada, depression affects one in seven people over the course of their lifetime and costs the economy over $6 billion per year.
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Various studies have documented the mental as well as physical benefits of these types of devices. “I think exoskeletons are going to be a game-changer,” says Craven. “There’s lots of rehab technologies in the past 20 years that have come and gone ... but the functional abilities of people with spinal cord injuries with and without the device are just so different.”
Fage has always been upfront and open about his condition. And sometimes that’s not easy.
Sandra Gibbons, her face wet with tears, slowly rose from her seat in the public gallery of the Ontario legislature to acknowledge the applause of the house.
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