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Max
02-12-2004, 05:11 PM
NEW Insights Into Spinal Cord Injuries
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Atlanta,GA,USA
Previous research showed locomotor training, such as exercising patients
on treadmills, helps people who have suffered a spinal cord injury to
learn to walk ...
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/spin/517207.html

antiquity
02-12-2004, 07:35 PM
The study of four patients with clinically complete spinal cord injury also found that moving one leg during therapy helps activate muscles in the opposite leg.

"Nobody has been able to show that in humans before. It appears there are left-to-right connections in the signal of the spinal cord, not just connections from the brain to the legs," research leader Dan Ferris, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Michigan, says in a statement.

Thanks Max, I'm going to copy this to the Exercise Forum. (http://carecure.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=74)

Max
05-16-2004, 11:20 AM
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