The evolution of walking-related outcomes over the first 12 weeks of rehabilitation for incomplete traumatic spinal cord injury: The multicenter randomized Spinal Cord Injury Locomotor Trial

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-35

  Dobkin, B ^a   Barbeau, H ^g   Deforge, D ^h   Ditunno, J ^f   Elashoff, R ^b   Apple, D ^j   Basso, M ^e   Behrman, A ^d   Harkema, S ^c   Saulino, M ^f   Scott, M ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

ⁱ RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

^j Shepherd Spinal Institute   (United States)

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Author keywords

Locomotion; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Treadmill training; Walking outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY MOTOR SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION PATIENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT DURATION; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 33845526072     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968306295556     Document Type: Article

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