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Article: Locomotor Training After Human Spinal Cord Injury: A Series of Case Studies.
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects approximately 230,000 individuals in the United States, with 10,000 new cases yearly.[1] Despite the fact that the majority of people with SCI do not recover functional walking, rehabilitative strategies for ambulation beyond the use of orthotic and assistive devices have changed little over the last 20 years.[2-10] Conventional rehabilitation primarily provides compensatory strategies for accomplishing mobility and strengthening above the level of the lesion.[9,10] Recently, new approaches to facilitate locomotor recovery have been explored in humans using locomotor training that optimizes sensory information associated with ...