Eamonn Holmes shared his ‘latest exploit’ to aid his mobility amid his crippling health battle, on Wednesday.
The GB News host, 64, posted a video of himself using an Alter G anti-gravity treadmill, which helps his ‘legs and body move like it did before’ his injury.
The presenter is still recovering from the surgery and an injury to his shoulder, which saw him takes four months off work at the end of last year.
Eamonn captioned his post: ‘Trying to remember what it felt like to have legs that worked.’
As he filmed himself on the machine, he said: ‘Hello there. This is my latest exploit. This is what’s called an anti-gravity treadmill. It’s an Alter G anti-gravity treadmill.
Eamonn Holmes, 64, shared his ‘latest exploit’ to aid his mobility amid his crippling health battle, on Wednesday
The GB News host posted a video of himself using an Alter G anti-gravity treadmill, which helps his ‘legs and body move like it did before’ his injury
‘And the reason it’s called anti-gravity is you’ll see down here… I’m being supported by quite a big balloon.
‘And the balloon holds my weight. What it does really, the machine, if I now walk or run in this, and it helps my legs and my body remember what it was like to move like this before things went wrong, that have been wrong for a long time.
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‘So this gives me a certain amount of freedom and the idea is that I build up muscle memory and y’know things will happen, hopefully in the future.
‘For the moment, I’ll do half an hour on this. Cheers!’
The Alter G treadmill inflates from the waist down giving you a weightless feeling as you walk or run with as little as 20% of your bodyweight, making it a lot more comfortable to exercise.
It follows when Eamonn was pictured out in public using a walking frame, following his split from wife Ruth Langsford.
The presenter uses a wheelchair due to chronic back pain as well as undergoing painful physio sessions.
Speaking in January he said the ‘harsh reality’ could be that he may never be able to walk unaided again.
The presenter is still recovering from the surgery and an injury to his shoulder, which saw him takes four months off work at the end of last year
The Alter G treadmill inflates from the waist down giving you a weightless feeling as you walk or run with as little as 20% of your bodyweight, making it a lot more comfortable to exercise
But Eamonn recently shared a photo of himself dressed smartly and stood of his own volition leaning against a door frame as his rehabilitation continues.
He captioned the post: ‘Hard to stand up but next my aim is to walk. Off to a birthday party today. What about you?’.
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In 2016, Eamonn underwent a double-hip replacement operation lasting three-and-a-quarter hours after living with acute pain for many years.
Speaking about his operation at the time, Eamonn said: ‘ Was I nervous? No! It was just like being on television. In the build-up I was stressed — can I do this? Will I handle it?’
Two years later, Eamonn detailed his battle with shingles and how he was struck with the virus on his son Declan’s wedding day.
During an appearance on Loose Women in September 2021, he spoke about his health battle which left him unable to work on This Morning three years ago.
He also shared images of his puffy face covered in marks and scabs during his battle.
Shingles is a viral rash caused by varicella zoster virus, the virus which causes chickenpox, being reactivated. In the UK, 90 per cent of adults have had chickenpox, so will have this virus lying dormant in their nervous systems.
Eamonn recently shared a photo of himself dressed smartly and stood of his own volition leaning against a door frame as his rehabilitation continues
He underwent spinal surgery in 2022 following years of chronic back pain and previously had a double-hip replacement in 2016
He eventually discovered it was three slipped discs that affected the movement of his right leg
His years of chronic back pain started in spring 2021 – which came completely out of nowhere.
The pain become so severe that it left Eamonn reliant on a walking stick, but soon found out the root cause.
He eventually discovered it was three slipped discs that affected the movement of his right leg.
In September 2022, Eamonn was forced to step away from his GB news show as he underwent vital back surgery to aid his chronic back pain.
Following his surgery, he revealed that despite physiotherapy, he continues to find his lack of mobility stops him from doing simple things and is forced to rely on others, which he described as ‘soul destroying’.
His spinal surgery left him with a weakened left leg, too, and just over two weeks into his recovery from the operation, Eamonn fell backwards down 18 stairs at the Weybridge home, hitting the stone floor at the bottom.
The horrific accident could easily have killed him. Instead, he emerged with a broken shoulder, and his legs further weakened.
The former This Morning host admitted at the time that fracturing his shoulder in a fall is a ‘massive setback’.
The presenter and Ruth announced their plans to divorce last month after 14 years of marriage and 27 years together
A year after his spinal surgery, Eamonn underwent a spine and neck stretching procedure in September 2023 after admitting he ‘couldn’t walk’.
Eamonn admitted he ‘hadn’t recovered’ from his back surgery, confessing: ‘I can’t run, I can’t walk, I can’t do anything except watch TV and eat.’
He explained: ‘I just got problems last year in my back, which I haven’t recovered from. It’s not good, it’s not a good recipe I have to say.’
Prior to their split estranged wife Ruth revealed she feared Eamonn ‘might never be 100 per cent right’.