At Madonna Rehab Hospital in Lincoln on Tuesday, there was plenty of reason for rehab patient Raymond Stevens to be excited and enthusiastic for the future.

Badly hurt in a motorcycle wreck two years ago, Stevens is learning to walk again, slowly, but steadily.

And he's one of the first rehab patients to use the hospital's new
"I Care" machine, which helps people who've suffered traumatic brain injuries, as well as those who've had strokes, learn to walk again.

The hospital invented and patented the "I Care", which looks similar to an elliptical machine that's been altered and modified in several ways, to help retrain patients to walk, including having a harness and
side ramps.

Stevens described to us the injury that damaged his spine.

"I had a motorcycle wreck, cracked C-3, 5 and 6 and they fused 3 and 4 together."

But now, he has hope. "Excited, very excited, gave me the hope of maybe running again," says Stevens.

Judy Burnfield, who runs the Madonna rehab department and was instrumental in the design of "I Care" says, "What we wanted to do was develop a new piece of technology that would be affordable, that could be used to help people work on their walking ability, and their fitness; not only while they're in the hospital, but also as they transition back to their communities and homes. So that was our underlying goal."

They got a federal grant to help come up with the design and end product. Now, if all works well, it could even start being mass produced.

For Stevens, it's a godsend. "It's a wonderful machine...congratulations to whoever built it.."

The "I Care" is being built by Lincoln-based Source One, a division of IMS.