That's what's so wonderful about this piece of equipment. For instance, the sergeant I showed you has an upper amputation, above the knee. Normally we'd work with someone like that for probably at least a good month before we'd take them outside on uneven ground. Now with this system, two weeks after he got used to his prosthetic limb, we had him using the system, getting the platform to go back and forth and in different directions. It sped it up by months. It gives them the confidence and they realize, “Gee, I can do this”.
The sergeant, for instance, mentioned to me one day that he used to be a golfer before his injury. My husband and I belong to a golf course here in town, so we invited him to come with us and try it. I said that if he could do that, I thought he could golf, and he did wonderfully; he really did.
Interestingly enough, the thing he had the most trouble with is that at our course the tee boxes are a little bit raised. Where there were steps, he was fine, but where there was just incline, he had a lot of trouble going up it. That was something we could go back and work on with him.