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Lulu's Foundation Grants $100K for VR Pain Relief

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Lulu Gribbin, a teenage shark attack survivor from Alabama, establishes the Lulu Strong Foundation, granting $100,000 to Axolo Health. Axolo, co-founded by Lulus doctors, develops virtual reality therapy for phantom limb pain relief, aiming to make it accessible to all amputees.

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Lulu's Foundation Grants $100K for VR Pain Relief

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Birmingham News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Lulu's Foundation Grants $100K for VR Pain Relief. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

A teenage shark attack survivor from Mountain Brook, Alabama just made a huge move for other amputees. Lulu Griven founded the Lulu Strong Foundation and they dropped their first grant $100,000 to Axelow Health. That company's building virtual reality therapy to ease fansom limb pain. The docs who treated Lulu right after her attack actually co-founded Axelow. Now they're teaming up to push this tech further and help more folks like her. Lulu called it a full circle moment, saying the foundation exists to make breakthrough treatments reachable for every amputee in need. It's got people buzzing about real hope for pain relief that hit so many. Axelow's working to expand the therapy, aiming to get it into more hands without the high cause holding anyone back. Stories like Lulu's remind us how one person's fight can lift up a whole community turning survival into strength for everyone. That wraps Birmingham News Today, brought to you with AI. I'm Corey with The Story.

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