An Overview of Treadmill Locomotor Training with Partial Body Weight Support: A Neurophysiologically Sound Approach Whose Time Has Come for Randomized Clinical Trials

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-165

  Dobkin, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NEUROLOGY; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REVIEW; SELF CARE; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

EID: 0033509040     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596839901300301     Document Type: Article

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