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PHYSICAL THERAPY
Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages 688-700Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOC
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/80.7.688
Keywords
locomotion; recovery; spinal cord injury
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- NCRR NIH HHS [MO1 RR00865-19] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS 16333, NS 36854] Funding Source: Medline
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Many individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) do not regain their ability to walk, even though it is a primary goal of rehabilitation. Mammals with thoracic spinal cord transection can relearn to step with their hind limbs on a treadmill when trained with sensory input associated with stepping. If humans have similar neural mechanisms for locomotion, then providing comparable training may promote locomotor recovery after SCI. We used locomotor training designed to provide sensory information associated with locomotion to improve stepping and walking in adults after SCI. Four adults with SCIs, with a mean postinjury time of 6 months, received locomotor training. Based on the American Spinal Injury Association (ASW) Impairment Scale and neurological classification standards, subject 1 had a T5 injury classified as ASIA A, subject 2 had a T5 injury classified as ASLA C, subject 3 had a C6 injury classified as ASLA D, and subject 4 had a T9 injury classified as ASIA D. All subjects improved their stepping on a treadmill. One subject achieved overground walking, and 2 subjects improved their overground walking. Locomotor training using the response of the human spinal cord to sensor information related to locomotion may improve the potential recovery of walking after SCI.
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