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DANCING TO<br />
A DIFFERENT<br />
BEAT<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY BY VANESSA PLAKIAS<br />
Five years ago, SIDNEY COLLIN was presented with an intriguing challenge:<br />
Build something to help a local veteran regain his mobility. One of her<br />
professors at Cal Poly announced that a man named Jack, a San Luis Obispo<br />
resident and longtime sufferer of the debilitating disease known as Parkinson’s,<br />
called the university to ask if there was anyone willing to take a flight on his<br />
idea. Collin raised her hand and one thing led to another. Today, she operates<br />
a fledgling medical device company known as De Oro Devices and its first<br />
product called NexStride is allowing people to do something many dismissed<br />
as an impossibility—walk again. Here is her story…<br />
DEC/JAN <strong>20</strong><strong>21</strong> | <strong>SLO</strong> <strong>LIFE</strong> MAGAZINE | 33
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