Jerrold S. Petrofsky

Jerrold S. Petrofsky is a professor of physical therapy at Loma Linda University in the School of Allied Health Professions.[1]

He is best known for his development while at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, of a portable computer system which stimulated the leg muscles of paralysis victims allowing them control of their lower extremities. In November 1982 he rose to prominence when a student, Nan Davis, who had been paralyzed from the waist down for four years, was made able to walk using technology Petrofsky helped develop.[2] Their story became the inspiration for the television movie First Steps.[3]

References
  1. http://www.llu.edu/llu/faculty/directory/faculty.html?id=jpetrofsky
  2. http://www.wright.edu/~aja.ash/publicity.html
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089147/
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