Ongoing walking recovery 2 years after locomotor training in a child with severe incomplete spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

The authors previously reported on walking recovery in a nonambulatory child with chronic, severe, incomplete cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) after 76 sessions of locomotor training (LT). Although clinical measures did not predict his recovery, reciprocal patterned leg movements developed, affording recovery of independent walking with a reverse rolling walker. The long-term functional limitations and secondary complications often associated with pediatric-onset SCI necessitate continued follow-up of children with SCI. Therefore, the purpose of this case report is to describe this child's walking function and musculoskeletal growth and development during the 2 years since his participation in an LT program and subsequent walking recovery.

Case descriptio

SUBMITTER: Fox EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2867216 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature