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Space Age Technology Made Easy to Use

The inventor of the GaitAid, Yoram Baram, is a Technion professor of computer science and incumbent of the Technion Roy Matas/Winnipeg chair in biomedical engineering who worked with NASA on advanced helicopter navigation systems.

One evening in 1993, he was relaxing in front of the television when he happened to see a program about Parkinson’s “freezing”: a condition in which the afflicted could not get their brains to communicate with their legs. Baram saw immediately that his work with helicopters was directly applicable to freezing, and spent the next 15 years developing the patented GaitAid - getting it right - making this technology easy to use and affordable to people.

During clinical research, Baram learned the device created for Parkinson’s disease is also helpful for Multiple Sclerosis, cerebral palsy, brain stroke and seniors with a gait impairment.