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Susan Harkema, PhD, Andrea Behrman, PhD, PT, and Hugues Barbeau, PhD

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780195342086

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195342086.001.0001

Locomotor Training as an Activity-Based Therapy for Posture, Standing, and Walking

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(p. 40 ) 3 Locomotor Training as an Activity-Based Therapy for Posture, Standing, and Walking
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Locomotor Training
Author(s):

Susan J. Harkema

Andrea L. Behrman

Hugues Barbeau

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195342086.003.0003

This chapter presents the concepts that have facilitated the translation of scientific evidence for activity-dependent plasticity into the clinical implementation of an activity-based therapy, locomotor training. It discusses the paradigm shift from compensation-based rehabilitation to activity-based therapy. It then presents the four guiding principles that serve as the basis for clinical decisions throughout the three components of locomotor training, to facilitate clients to continually recover function while achieving functional goals at home and advancing through the phases of recovery.

Keywords:   activity-dependent plasticity, locomotor training, compensation-based rehabilitation, function

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