Trial reportThe journal of spinal cord medicine2016
Visuotemporal cues clinically improved walking ability of ambulatory patients with spinal cord injury within 5 days.
Trial report in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Exercise therapy can effectively improve trunk performance and sitting balance in spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Pooled it
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- Physical rehabilitation techniques for spinal cord injury: A scoping review.African journal of disability · 2026Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectiveThe human movement system uses a variety of inputs to produce movements. The concurrent use of external information, specifically visutemporal cues, while walking could promote the walking ability of ambulatory patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). This study explored the use of visutemporal cues in rehabilitation training by subjecting ambulatory individuals with SCI to walking training with or without visuotemporal cues and then assessing the effects on their functional ability.
designQuasi-experimental study.
settingA tertiary rehabilitation center.
participantsThirty-two participants were randomly assigned to the experimental or control groups using stage of injury, severity of SCI, and baseline walking ability as criteria for group arrangement (16 participants/group).
interventionsThe participants were trained to walk over level ground at their fastest safe speed with or without a visuotemporal cue, 30 minutes/day, for 5 consecutive days. OUTCOME MEASURES: The 10-meter walk test, 6-minute walk test, timed up and go test, and five times sit-to-stand test.
resultsThe participants demonstrated significant improvement in all functional tests after the 5 days of training (P < 0.001). In addition, the improvement in the group trained using the visuotemporal cue was significantly better than that trained without using the cue.
conclusionsMost of these participants were at a chronic stage of SCI, so the findings supported a benefit for incorporating visuotemporal cues in rehabilitation practice, particularly today when the length of rehabilitation has dramatically decreased.
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