Just two weeks before 23-year-old marine Mike Delancey was scheduled to return home from Iraq, his worst nightmare happened.
"The bullet hit and came through my left shoulder right here, and it basically traveled across my spine," said Mike Delancey.
His family was told he wouldn't make it. Thankfully, Mike survived, but was paralyzed. Now part of his recovery is getting his game back.
"If I try to do certain things like shoot a basketball, you know, it comes right here, and you don't have that right motion," he said.
Mike turned to a robot for help. It works by lengthening tight muscles. A physical therapist positions the mechanical arm over the targeted area. Built-in sensors are programmed to apply a specific amount of pressure.
"It starts actually very subtly, moving and hunting, and it fools the muscle fibers to go and come apart and go from an adhered state and go like this," said Al Meilus, President of Meilus Muscular Therapy & Sports Inc.
After a chiropractor dislocated his joint, Dave Hutchieson was told he would never walk again. The former paratrooper didn't lose hope.
"We were always told never give up. It doesn't matter what happened, never give up."
After a couple months with the robot, he was walking normally. Mike is seeing improvement too.
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