Robotic assistance that encourages the generation of stepping rather than fully assisting movements is best for learning to step in spinally contused rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2764-2771

  Lee, Connie ^a   Won, Deborah ^a   Cantoria, Mary Jo ^a   Hamlin, Marvin ^a   de Leon, Ray D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Spinal cord injury; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FULLY ASSISTING MOVEMENT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEPPING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 79959361198     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01129.2010     Document Type: Article

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