Evidence-Based Practice and Activity-Based Therapy for Recovery of Posture, Standing, and Walking
This chapter reviews physical rehabilitation for posture, standing, and walking from an historical perspective, and provides a context for the emergence of locomotor training as an activity-based therapy after spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke by implementing evidence-based practice. The chapter is not intended to be a comprehensive review of the functional consequences after injury or insult or a review of all the available rehabilitation strategies for SCI or stroke. Rather, it is intended to be a discussion within the framework of introducing locomotor training as a new strategy to augment already successful therapeutic approaches. The review presented is not a discourse of accepted clinical practices but is a summary of evidence from studies in individuals after SCI or stroke related to functional deficits affecting mobility, posture, standing, and walking.
Keywords: physical rehabilitation, posture, standing, walking, spinal cord injury, stroke
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .