The physiological benefits of paraplegic orthotically aided walking
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Developmental research in paraplegic walking.
An injured London policeman's fight to stand and walk again, despite the handicap ofcomplete paraplegia at thoracic level from a gunshot wound, captured the public imagination last year. British journalists hailed as an important breakthrough his treatment-firstly, with an electrical stimulation system (functional electrical stimulation) for the paralysed lower limb musculature, then using a sp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1993.19