Walking after incomplete spinal cord injury using an implanted FES system: A case report

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 333-346

  Hardin, Elizabeth ^a   Kobetic, Rudi ^a   Murray, Lori ^a   Corado Ahmed, Michelle ^a   Pinault, Gilles ^a   Sakai, Jonathan ^a   Bailey, Stephanie Nogan ^a   Ho, Chester ^a   Triolo, Ronald J ^a  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulation; FES; Functional outcomes; Locomotion; Neurological gait disorders; Physiological cost index; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Stimulation; Walking

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTED FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NEUROLOGICAL GAIT DISORDERS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THERAPEUTIC;

ELECTRODES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTRODE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; IMPLANT; INJURY SEVERITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; THERAPY EFFECT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WALKING;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EXERCISE THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34447573024     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2007.03.0333     Document Type: Article

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