Neuromotor and musculoskeletal responses to locomotor training for an individual with chronic motor complete AIS-B spinal cord injury.

Background/objective: To determine the effects of locomotor training (LT) using body weight support (BWS), treadmill, and manual assistance on muscle activation, bone mineral density (BMD), and body composition changes for an individual with motor complete spinal cord injury (AIS B), 1 year after injury.

Methods: A man with chronic C6 AIS B (motor complete and sensory incomplete) spinal cord injury (SCI), 1 year after injury, completed 2 blocks of LT over a 9-month training period (35-session block followed by 8.6 weeks of no training and then a 62-session block).

Arm crank ergometry and shoulder pain in persons with spinal cord injury.

Objective: To determine whether a primary fitness program utilizing arm crank ergometry would cause increased shoulder pain in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: Clinical research center.

The intra- and interrater reliability of hip muscle strength assessments using a handheld versus a portable dynamometer anchoring station.

Objective: To compare the inter- and intrarater reliability of a portable dynamometer anchoring station (DAS) to a handheld dynamometer (HHD).

Design: Repeated-measures design.

Setting: Human performance and movement analysis laboratory.

Stroke patients' and therapists' opinions of constraint-induced movement therapy.

Objective: To determine the opinions of patients with stroke and therapists about constraint-induced movement therapy (CIT).

Subjects And Intervention: Two hundred and eight patients with stroke in the northeastern USA responded to a self-report questionnaire administered through the mail and via telephone interviews. A similar questionnaire was administered to 85 physical and occupational therapists in the northeastern USA during their clinical staff meetings.