Bionic leg allows paralysed jockey to walk again
Published: 06:50, 16 October 2014
| Updated: 12:25, 21 January 2015
Nineteen-year-old Katie Watson was cut from the wreckage with a broken neck and a crushed spinal cord.
But now, thanks to five months of intensive therapy at the Injured Jockey Fund’s Oaksey House rehabilitation centre in Lambourn, she is not only walking again but is also regularly riding her horse - using the world’s first bionic leg.
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