Using robot-applied resistance to augment body-weight-supported treadmill training in an individual with incomplete spinal cord injury

Physical Therapy

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-151

  Lam, Tania ^a   Pauhl, Katherine ^a   Krassioukov, Andrei ^a   Eng, Janice J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; EXERCISE TEST; GAIT; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 79952204462     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100026     Document Type: Article

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