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A non-profit gym in Jersey is promoting a new technique designed to help those with spinal cord injury.

The Push to Walk project focuses on areas bypassed by traditional physical therapy, such as muscles where there is no longer any feeling and limbs that are now unused, reports mycentraljersey.com.

 Cynthia Templeton, one of the founders of the gym, told the publication: "We focus on the whole body.

"Every one of our clients has had gains in strength. Some have been able to stand independently. Some have been able to take a few steps."

Templeton opened the gym, along with husband John, after their son Darren fractured discs in his neck and was diagnosed as a quadripelegic.

Darren believes that exercising all his muscles, rather than just focusing on those he uses in everyday activities, has kept him healthy enough to attend college and graduate school.

The programme is an independent offshoot of California-based Project Walk.

Meanwhile, eLegs, a motorised exo-skeleton device developed by Berkeley Bionics, has helped wheelchair-bound Stephanie Sablan to take her first step since she was injured in a car accident in January.

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