As the leg moves forward, Wojciehowski brings her right hand to the front of LeGrand’s right knee, pushing on the patellar tendon, just below the kneecap, which straightens the leg, allowing it to glide back again, whereupon she repeats the process, pulling and pushing with each step. Simultaneously she places her right hand on the hamstring tendon behind his right knee, and then with both hands she lifts and pulls the leg toward her. Once the treadmill is turned on, the three women begin what Wojciehowski calls “the act of walking the patient.”Īs LeGrand’s right leg glides back on the treadmill, Wojciehowski places her left hand on his anterior tibialis, the muscle behind the right ankle. A locomotor training technician named Lindsay McIntyre is seated at his left knee, and directly behind him, another technician, Roxanne Franco, holds onto the belt of the harness. His physical therapist, Sandra Wojciehowski, a spark plug better known as Buffy, is seated at his right knee. Baby-blue cloth straps bind his wrists to waist-high railings on his left and right. He’s standing on a high-tech treadmill, an overhead harness strapped around his torso. Photography by John EmersonĮric LeGrand is just beginning his daily workout inside the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, New Jersey. Karen LeGrand photographed with her son, Eric LeGrand, in their Woodbridge, New Jersey, home.
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