Locomotor Training Restores Walking Function In Child With Spinal Cord Injury
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
A new report shows that a non-ambulatory (unable to walk or stand) child with a cervical spinal cord injury was able to restore basic walking function after intensive locomotor training. The case study evaluated the effects of locomotor training in a 4 ½ year-old-boy, who had no ability to walk following a gunshot wound sixteen months earlier.
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