Effects of four-week lower limb loading training with and without augmented feedback on mobility, walking device use, and falls among ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: To compare the effects of lower limb loading training (LLLT) with or without augmented loading feedback during stepping activity on mobility, walking device use, and falls among ambulatory individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

Study Design: Randomized controlled trial (assessor-blinded) with prospective fall data follow-up, clinical trial registration (NCT03254797).

Methods: Forty-four ambulatory participants (22 participants/group) were prospectively monitored for their baseline fall data over six months, with baseline assessments for their mobility and walking device used after six months.

The use of lower limb loading ability as an indicator for independence and safety in ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury.

Background: Data relating to weight-bearing or lower limb loading ability (LLLA) have been reported wildly in several individuals, mostly with unilateral impairments, but not in ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) who have bilateral sensorimotor deterioration.

Aim: To assess the LLLA of ambulatory individuals with SCI who walk independently with and without a walking device, and explore the optimal threshold of the LLLA to determine the independence and safety of these individuals.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Immediate effects of lower limb loading exercise during stepping with and without augmented loading feedback on mobility of ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury: a single-blinded, randomized, cross-over trial.

Study Design: Single-blinded, randomized, cross-over design.

Objectives: To compare the immediate effects of bodyweight shifting and lower limb loading (LLL) exercise during stepping with and without augmented loading feedback, followed by overground walking, on the mobility of ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: Academic laboratory center.

Modified stepping exercise improves physical performances and quality of life in healthy elderly subjects.

Background: Stepping exercise, an aerobic exercise, has been shown to be beneficial to elderly people if performed continuously for at least 12 weeks. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of engaging in modified stepping exercise on stairs with shorter height than the standard stepping platform for a shorter duration (8 weeks) on both physical fitness and quality of life (QoL) in healthy elderly subjects by using a randomized controlled trial.

Methods: The study was conducted at the Elderly Club, Muang District, Khon Kaen, Thailand.