Sentences with phrase «locomotor training»
This study will assess the immediate effects of locomotor training with the SAFE Orthosis in three ambulatory stroke participants and three age - matched healthy controls.
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Kessler is also one of seven centers in the Christopher and Dana Reeve NeuroRecovery Network, a program designed to retrain the nervous system through intensive repetitive locomotor training — during which the individual is harnessed over a treadmill as therapists move the legs in a walking motion.
He also participates in the NRN's locomotor training program at Kessler, where he is harnessed over a treadmill while therapists move his legs in a walking motion in an effort to retrain his nervous system.
Combined with our expertise in spinal cord injury, gait analysis, locomotor training, robotic technology, and therapy training requirements, we are well positioned to contribute to outcomes of the WISE study.»
Kessler will conduct a study of a combination therapy using dalfampridine — a drug recently approved to improve walking in patients with multiple sclerosis — with a standardized program of locomotor training, a rehabilitative intervention that has improved walking and other functional outcomes in persons with spinal cord injuries.
Harkema and her team first worked with Summers on locomotor training, without electrical stimulation.