PHYS THER
Vol. 89, No. 6, June 2009, pp. 612-615
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080257.ic
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Andrea L. Behrman

A.L. Behrman, PT, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, PO Box 100154, Gainesville, FL 32610-0154 (USA), and Research Scientist, Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida.

Address all correspondence to Dr Behrman at: abehrman@phhp.ufl.edu


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Successful community ambulation should be the ultimate goal of locomotor rehabilitation. To this end, Musselman and colleagues1 assess the effect of rehabilitation to achieve the very practical skills required to walk daily in an individual's home and community after spinal cord injury (SCI). The current case series1 is an important step in bringing the topic of how to best retrain walking to the forefront of discussion for rehabilitation research and clinical practice and provides several important points toward developing effective rehabilitation strategies and measures of walking recovery. The diversity of outcomes across the 4 patients serves as a catalyst to address several critical areas of inquiry as researchers design studies with the goal of guiding clinical practice for walking recovery.

Physical rehabilitation targeting walking recovery after neurologic injury, and specifically after SCI, is in its infancy. Due to the emerging shift in this field, it is critical to distinguish functional . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Physical Therapy, June 1, 2009; 89(6): 615 - 616.
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