Metabolic Responses to 4 Different Body Weight-Supported Locomotor Training Approaches in Persons With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

• Published in: Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation Vol. 94; no. 8; pp. 1436 - 1442
• Main Authors: Kressler, Jochen, Nash, Mark S., Burns, Patricia A., Field-Fote, Edelle C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.08.2013
• Subjects: Electric Stimulation Therapy; Energy Metabolism - physiology; Exercise; Humans; Orthotic Devices; Oxygen consumption; Oxygen Consumption - physiology; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Physical Therapy Modalities; Recovery of Function; Rehabilitation; Single-Blind Method; Spinal Cord Injuries - metabolism; Spinal Cord Injuries - physiopathology; Spinal Cord Injuries - rehabilitation; Treatment Outcome; Walking - physiology; Weight-Bearing - physiology; LT; Oxygen consumption; MLI; DGO; Vo2peak; Exercise; ANOVA; CRF; V˙o2; LTA; OG; SCI; TM; Rehabilitation; TS; manual assistance on a treadmill; locomotor training approach; transcutaneous electrical stimulation; V o 2peak; cardiorespiratory fitness; analysis of variance; V ˙ o 2; peak oxygen consumption; driven gait orthosis; spinal cord injury; locomotor training; overground; oxygen uptake; motor level of injury; Vo(2peak); o

To describe metabolic responses accompanying 4 different locomotor training (LT) approaches. Single-blind, randomized controlled trial. Rehabilitation research laboratory, academic medical center. Individuals (N=62) with minimal walking function due to chronic motor-incomplete spinal cord injury. Pa...