Locomotor training and muscle function after incomplete spinal cord injury: Case series

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-193

  Jayaraman, Arun ^a   Shah, Prithvi ^a   Gregory, Christopher ^a   Bowden, Mark ^a   Stevens, Jennifer ^a   Bishop, Mark ^a   Walter, Glenn ^a   Behrman, Andrea ^a   Vandenborne, Krista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight support; Dynamometry; Locomotion; Locomotor training; Magnetic resonance imaging; Muscle strength, activation; Paraplegia; Skeletal muscle; Spinal cord injuries, incomplete; Tetraplegia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TORQUE; TRAINING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 46749092087     PISSN: 10790268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2008.11760710     Document Type: Article

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