AMAZING MOMENT: Man with spinal cord injury walks using exoskeleton in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man with a spinal cord injury will be going home with an exoskeleton device that allows him to walk again.

Scot Mills fell while building a tree house five years ago. The accident robbed him the use of his legs.

"They said I would never walk again, but truly, with a spinal injury, they don't know," Mills said.

Mills has been traveling from his home in Virginia to Carolinas Rehabilitation in Charlotte for specialized training.

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Carolinas Rehabilitation recently began a program to screen patients to see if they could use the device and to train qualified candidates to use it. The device is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable people with lower-limb disabilities, such as paraplegia, to stand upright and walk.

"It's kind of like starting all over. First it was a weeble wobble, hope you don't fall down," Mills said.

Mills is the first graduate of the program at Carolinas Rehabilitation. Now he'll be able to walk down the aisle for his upcoming wedding.

While Mills is the first to go through the program, he isn't the last. Other patients are learning how to balance, sit and stand. They will be walking out the doors of Carolinas Rehabilitation soon.

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