Ongoing walking recovery 2 years after locomotor training in a child with severe incomplete spinal cord injury

Physical Therapy

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 793-802

  Fox, Emily J ^a   Tester, Nicole J ^a,b   Phadke, Chetan P ^c   Nair, Preeti M ^d   Senesac, Claudia R ^a   Howland, Dena R ^a,b   Behrman, Andrea L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WALKING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 77952364422     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20090171     Document Type: Article

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