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Should Body Weight-Supported Treadmill Training and Robotic-Assistive Steppers for Locomotor Training Trot Back to the Starting Gate
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 05/21/2012
Dobkin BH et al. – The authors reassess the underpinning concepts for Body weight–supported treadmill training (BWSTT) and robotic–assisted step training (RAST), which were derived from mammalian studies of treadmill–induced hind–limb stepping associated with central pattern generation after low thoracic spinal cord transection, as well as human studies of the triple crown icons of task–oriented locomotor training, massed practice, and activity–induced neuroplasticity.
