Overground walking patterns after chronic incomplete spinal cord injury show distinct response patterns to unloading
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Neuromuscular constraints on muscle coordination during overground walking in persons with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury.
OBJECTIVE Incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) disrupts motor control and limits the ability to coordinate muscles for overground walking. Inappropriate muscle activity has been proposed as a source of clinically observed walking deficits after iSCI. We hypothesized that persons with iSCI exhibit lower locomotor complexity compared to able-body (AB) controls as reflected by fewer motor modules,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1743-0003
DOI: 10.1186/s12984-018-0436-1