Locomotor training: principles and practice

Locomotor Training is the first comprehensive book describing the scientificfoundation for this therapy; the principles guiding locomotor training; the specific hands-on-skills, decision-making, and progression of recovery applied across three training components: step training on the treadmill, over ground assessment, and community integration. Physical rehabilitation for walking recovery after spinal cord injury is undergoing a paradigm shift. Therapy historically has focused on compensation for sensorimotor deficits after SCI using wheelchairs and bracing to achieve mobility. With locomotor training, the aimis to promote recovery via activation of the neuromuscular system below the level of the lesion. What basic scientists have shown us as the potential of the nervous system for plasticity, to learn, even afterinjury is being translated into a rehabilitation strategy by taking advantageof the intrinsic biology of the central nervous system. While spinal cord injury from basic and clinical perspectives was the gateway for developing locomotor training, its application has been extended to other populationswith neurologic dysfunction resulting in loss of walking or walking disability.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-534208-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 07/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés