The effect of locomotor training combined with functional electrical stimulation in chronic spinal cord injured subjects: Walking and reflex studies

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 274-291

  Barbeau, Hugues ^a,b   Ladouceur, Michel ^c   Mirbagheri, Mehdi M ^a   Kearney, Robert E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JEWISH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Locomotor training; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM CARE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING;

EID: 0036825166     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(02)00210-2     Document Type: Review

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