Trial reportAmerican journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation2018
Facilitating Weight Shifting During Treadmill Training Improves Walking Function in Humans With Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.
Trial report in American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- The efficacy of exoskeleton robotic training on ambulation recovery in patients with spinal cord injury: A meta-analysis.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Physiotherapy interventions for the treatment of spasticity in people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Spinal cord · 2021Pooled it
- Can robot-assisted gait training improve walking and activity abilities in persons with spinal cord injury? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in neurologyPooled it
- Comparing walking with knee-ankle-foot orthoses and a knee-powered exoskeleton after spinal cord injury: a randomized, crossover clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
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- Quality of life and psychological outcomes of body-weight supported locomotor training in spinal cord injured persons with long-standing incomplete lesions.Spinal cord · 2020Trial
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- Radiographic Findings in the Lower Extremity Joints of Long-Term Users of Implanted Standing Neuroprostheses with Spinal Cord Injuries.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025Article
- Body weight-supported treadmill training reduces glial scar overgrowth in SCI rats by decreasing the reactivity of astrocytes during the subacute phase.BMC neuroscience · 2025Article
- Intermittent adaptation to pelvis perturbation during walking enhances retention and generalization of motor learning in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Differentiation in theta and gamma activation in weight-shifting learning between people with parkinson's disease of different anxiety severities.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Magnetic Stimulation of Gigantocellular Reticular Nucleus with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Combined Treadmill Training Enhanced Locomotor Recovery by Reorganizing Cortico-Reticulo-Spinal Circuit.International journal of nanomedicine · 2024Article
- Gait Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with Metanalysis Involving New Rehabilitative Technologies.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Body weight-supported gait training for patients with spinal cord injury: a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Static Body Weight Distribution and Girth Measurements Over Time in Dogs After Acute Thoracolumbar Intervertebral Disc Extrusion.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Motor Adaptation to Weight Shifting Assistance Transfers to Overground Walking in People with Spinal Cord Injury.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of the study was to determine whether the integration of dynamic weight shifting into treadmill training would improve the efficacy of treadmill training in humans with spinal cord injury.
designSixteen humans with spinal cord injury were randomly assigned to receive robotic or treadmill-only training and underwent 6 wks of training. A force was applied to the pelvis for facilitating weight shifting and to the legs for assisting with leg swing for participants in the robotic group. No assistance force was applied for participants in the treadmill-only group. Outcome measures consisted of overground walking speed, 6-min walking distance, and other clinical measures and were assessed before, after 6 wks of training, and 8 wks after the end of training.
resultsA greater improvement in 6-min walking distance was observed after robotic training than that after treadmill-only training (P = 0.03), but there was not a significant difference between the two groups in improvements in walking speed. However, a greater improvement was observed for the participants who underwent robotic training than those who underwent treadmill-only training (i.e., 15% vs. 2%).
conclusionsApplying a pelvis assistance force for facilitating weight shifting during treadmill training may improve locomotor function in humans with spinal cord injury.
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