NeoRestoration Foundation

NeoRestoration Foundation The NeoRestoration Foundation (NRF) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to funding advanced neuroscience research.

08/01/2025

Discover the contributions of neuroethics to research, industry, and policy at the Oxford Winter Neuroethics School. Gain the practical skills needed for planning and delivering interdisciplinary research projects in neuroethics. Applications due August 10.

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08/01/2025

The rate of fatalities on U.S. roadways is much higher than those in many other high-income nations. Sheila G. Klauer, PhD, and Zachary R. Doerzaph, PhD, review evidence-based strategies for moving toward a future with no traffic deaths.

08/01/2025

Rob was a 17-year-old star football player with big plans for college. But one rainy afternoon on the job, a crash left him paralyzed and forced him to trade...

08/01/2025

Rick Hansen lived in Montney for a few months when he was in Grade 2. He and I were in the “Little Room” at the Montney school along with about thirty other kids in Grades 1 to 3. Mrs. Craig was o…

08/01/2025

Today’s the final day to get your tickets for Triumph Foundation’s 2025 Gala—and we need you there!

Join us August 7th at the iconic Petersen Museum for an unforgettable night supporting people rebuilding after spinal cord injury.

✨ Inspiring stories
🍸 Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres
🎶 Live entertainment
🌇 Rooftop views

Can’t make it? You can still donate and be part of the impact. 💛
👉 triumph-foundation.org/gala

08/01/2025

Accessing a service dog often involves a hefty price tag and a lengthy process, but for many with disabilities these companions are invaluable.

08/01/2025

On Sunday, Team Gino set off on one of their biggest challenges, cycling London to Edinburgh to London.

The dedication of the Islington Cycling Club to support their friend James 'Gino' Murphy is truly inspiring. We are wishing them the best of luck and can't wait to see some updates along the way. đź’Ş

08/01/2025

Spinal cord injuries are currently incurable, with devastating effects on people’s lives, but a new study offers hope for healing.

# Kessler Foundation and Wandercraft Collaboration # # Engineering Partnerships and Grant FundingThis breakthrough is ...
08/01/2025

# Kessler Foundation and Wandercraft Collaboration

# # Engineering Partnerships and Grant Funding

This breakthrough is made possible through engineering collaborations with EDM Corporation and Cyberdyne Corporation, as well as grant funding from the NeoRestoration Foundation.

# # Kessler Foundation’s Role and Recognition

We’re proud to see Kessler Foundation featured in the New York Post for our collaboration with Wandercraft, advancing exoskeleton technology to empower people with paralysis.

# # Walking Again at Wandercraft’s Park Avenue South Storefront

Inside the glass-ensconced Wandercraft showroom on Park Avenue South, 22-year-old Caroline Laubach recently rose from her wheelchair and walked.
Every time she stood, she remembered just how tall she really is, she told NYNext.

At age 18, Laubach went into end-stage heart failure and spent two weeks on life support awaiting a donor. Although her heart transplant succeeded, a spinal stroke during that time left her paralyzed from the waist down.

# # A Life-Changing First Stride

She believed she would be confined to a wheelchair forever—until she met Wandercraft’s exoskeleton, Atalante.
During a therapy session in November 2024, she strapped on the device for the first time and experienced a profound shift.
“To look at someone from eye level and make a connection in that way is a different dynamic,” she said.

# # Wandercraft’s Journey and New York Debut

Founded in 2012, French robotics and AI company Wandercraft launched its first Atalante model in 2019. Two years later, the device received FDA clearance for stroke rehabilitation.

In December 2023, Wandercraft opened Walk In New York, a street-level showroom and clinic designed to bring real exoskeleton therapy out of the lab and into everyday life.

# # From Clinic to Home: Atalante and Eve

Atalante, built for physical therapy under clinician supervision, paved the way for Wandercraft’s next evolution: Eve.
Fully self-balancing and controlled by a handheld joystick, Eve is now in clinical trials at the Bronx VA and the Kessler Foundation in New Jersey.

Powered by motors at each ankle, knee and hip—and guided by real-time sensor feedback—the system adapts to each user’s weight distribution and movement patterns.

# # Precision Engineering and AI Integration

This level of control has been sharpened through collaboration with EDM Corporation and Cyberdyne Corporation, and a decade of algorithm refinement alongside partners such as Nvidia and AWS.
More than 2,000 patients have tested Wandercraft hardware in hospitals and rehab centers, ensuring safety and reliability.

# # Real-World Impact and High-Profile Demonstrations

French paraplegic tennis player Kevin Piette donned a Wandercraft exoskeleton to carry the Olympic torch toward Paris in 2024.
“We’re seeing emotional, psychological and physiological benefits across so many aspects of patients’ lives,” said Matthieu Masselin, CEO and co-founder of Wandercraft.

# # Driving Down Costs and Expanding Access

A recent partnership with the Renault Group will streamline manufacturing and lower production costs.
With Medicare coding secured for Atalante, qualifying patients can now receive reimbursement.

When Eve reaches the market—potentially as soon as next year—it will be eligible for up to $93,000 in reimbursement.

# # The Road Ahead

Wandercraft and Kessler Foundation envision exoskeletons that conquer stairs, uneven terrain and outdoor environments.
Laubach hopes to be among the first to take Eve home once FDA clearance is granted.
“I hope we see a lot more exoskeletons out on the street—for people like me, and for people very different from me,” she told NYNext.

Learn more about our Center for Mobility and Rehabilitation Engineering Research: https://lnkd.in/4G0r4+

For our final July , we present this recently published study discussing actionable strategies for intentional, systemi...
07/29/2025

For our final July , we present this recently published study discussing actionable strategies for intentional, systemic change across institutions, training programs, and professional organizations to address inequities in spine surgery.

am proud to share that has, once again, ranked as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Care. This is a testament to b...
07/29/2025

am proud to share that has, once again, ranked as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Care. This is a testament to both our outstanding clinical care and our relentless pursuit of advancing treatments through innovative research. Read the announcement at bar.rw/bestneurological2025.

For the second consecutive year, the Doximity Residency Navigator has ranked Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, A...
07/29/2025

For the second consecutive year, the Doximity Residency Navigator has ranked Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona as having the No. 1 neurosurgery residency program in the United States.

As an online networking service for medical professionals, updates its Residency Navigator each year to empower graduating medical students to make informed decisions when applying for residency programs in various specialties. According to Doximity’s website, approximately 90 percent of graduating fourth-year medical students use this directory.

The 2025-26 rankings culminate satisfaction surveys of current residents and recent alumni, nominations by board-certified physicians within each specialty, and objective data from various public sources.

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The NeoRestoration Foundation (NRF) meets a critical need for research, access and recovery in spinal cord injury treatment. Every year, around the world, between 250,000 to 500,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury (SCI). There are about 12,000 new SCIs every year, and the majority of them (82 percent) involve males between the ages of 16-30. These injuries result from motor vehicle accidents (36 percent), violence (28.9 percent) or falls (21.2 percent). A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that causes changes in its function, either temporary or permanent. These changes translate into loss of muscle function, sensation, or autonomic function in parts of the body served by the spinal cord below the level of the lesion.

In early 2000, John Wood McDonald III, MD PhD and his team were the first to report that oligodendrocytes do regenerate when stimulated by exercise. Hence he launched new and innovative protocols known as Restorative Therapy Integration (RTI) in treating patients with spinal cord injury. This lead the way for Dr. McDonald recognizing that the micro repair of the spinal cord to restore and recover function if volitional exercise was employed. This discovery gave birth for him to develop Activity Based Restorative Therapy (ABRT).

In 2004, Dr. McDonald built and became the Executive Director of the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury ICSCI at Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. It is here that he and his team he brought with him from St. Louis; he further expanded and improved ABRT and pushed for the expansion and improvements in technology and more research to move medical science forward. ABRT is now a therapeutic protocol used worldwide from those who have sustained a spinal cord injury and has been the driving force to expand and rewrite the protocols of treatment of people experiencing other movement disorders. The cross collaboration of world-renowned scientists from different research institutions across the world, lead to further innovations in technology, advances in stem cell treatment and improved pharmacological treatment and a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms to repair and restore muscle mass, movement and neuronal cell regeneration enabling patients to regain independence. Their plan integrates the most advanced knowledge in neuroscience, epigenetics, nanotechnology, molecular biology, electrophysiology, and functional brain imaging. According to Dr. McDonald, today, it is improvements in technology that will be the single most significant factor in moving medical science forward.

NeoRestoration Foundation was founded in 2017 by Ellizzette Duvall McDonald inspired by her brilliant husband, John W. McDonald III MD PhD, who pioneered the research and recovery in spinal cord injury patients through his stem cell research that lead to multiple other discoveries, patents and protocols in the field of neuroscience and neurology. Today his historical groundbreaking work and legacy continues among his collaborators. NRF is headquartered in New York City, with offices in St. Louis. 100% of all donations go directly to research.