Body weight-supported treadmill training after spinal cord injury: Is there an ideal prescription for intervention?

Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 161-174

  Fenuta, Alyssa M ^a   Hicks, Audrey L ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular function; Locomotion; Mobility impairments; Muscle morphology; Neuronal plasticity; Psychological well being

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ANXIETY; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BIOMECHANICS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT SUPPORTED TREADMILL TRAINING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LAMINECTOMY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; ROBOTIC ASSISTED LOCOMOTOR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WALKING;

EID: 84871953999     PISSN: 08962960     EISSN: 21626553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevPhysRehabilMed.v23.i1-4.120     Document Type: Review

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