Gait training combining partial body-weight support, a treadmill, and functional electrical stimulation: effects on poststroke gait.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Treadmill training with harness support is a promising, task-oriented approach to restoring locomotor function in people with poststroke hemiparesis. Although the combined use of functional electrical stimulation (FES) and treadmill training with body-weight support (BWS) has...

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Published in:Physical Therapy Vol. 87; no. 9; pp. 1144 - 1155
Main Authors: Lindquist ARR, Prado CL, Barros RML, Mattioli R, da Costa PHL, Salvini TF
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2007
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