Locomotor and resistance training restore walking in an elderly person with a chronic incomplete spinal cord injury

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-133

  Gorgey, Ashraf S ^a   Poarch, Hunter ^a   Miller, Joshua ^a   Castillo, Teodoro ^a   Gater, David R ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotor training; Resistance training; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA IMPAIRMENT SCALE; BERG BALANCE SCORE; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENT MEASURE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INJURY SCALE; LAMINECTOMY; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE TRAINING; PATIENT MOBILITY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; STANDING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; WALKING AID; WALKING INDEX FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY; WALKING SPEED; WHEELCHAIR;

AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950283270     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2010-0544     Document Type: Article

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