PHYS THER
Vol. 88, No. 5, May 2008, pp. 590-591
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20070315.ic1
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V Reggie Edgerton

VR Edgerton, PhD, is Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Physiological Science, and Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095


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There are several very important points that should be noted from the article by Behrman and colleagues1 addressing the issue of the potential to regain some locomotor function following a severe spinal cord injury in a young child.

  1. As has been demonstrated and implicated previously, the clinical motor scores that are classically derived are nearly irrelevant in defining the level of function attributable to the spinal circuitry in generating stepping.2 As has been shown in adults, individuals with a spinal cord injury that is severe, but categorized as incomplete, can utilize the remaining supraspinal influence to take advantage of this capacity of the spinal circuitry to take care of many of the details necessary to execute standing and stepping if this circuitry has not been allowed to "learn" . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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