Effectiveness of automated locomotor training in patients with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury: a multicenter trial.

Objective: To determine whether automated locomotor training with a driven-gait orthosis (DGO) can increase functional mobility in people with chronic, motor incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Repeated assessment of the same patients or single-case experimental A-B design.

Setting: Research units of rehabilitation hospitals in Chicago; Heidelberg, Germany; and Basel and Zurich, Switzerland.