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

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Published in Arch Phys Med Rehabil on April 01, 2005

Authors

Markus Wirz1, David H Zemon, Ruediger Rupp, Anke Scheel, Gery Colombo, Volker Dietz, T George Hornby

Author Affiliations

1: Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

Associated clinical trials:

Activity-Dependent Transspinal Stimulation in SCI | NCT03669302

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