Body Weight Support Treadmill Gait Training in the Subacute Recovery Phase of Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 119-136

  Nymark, Jennifer ^a   Deforge, Daniel ^a   Barbeau, Hugues ^b   Badour, Michele ^c   Bercovitch, Shelly ^b   Tomas, John ^c   Goudreau, Louis ^c   Macdonald, Janice ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Rehabilitation Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer input; Incomplete spinal cord injury; Rehabilitation; Weight supported treadmill gait training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0032447790     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596839801200307     Document Type: Article

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