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Rob Summers owned a secret to beating the odds, until a car burst out of the darkness and his luck ran out on him. Or…
A hit-and-run victim paralysed from the waist down has stood up on his own and taken his first steps after pioneering treatment. Rob Summers, 25,…
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Five years ago, Rob Summers was 20 years old and about to enter his junior year at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where he was…
A young man paralyzed by an injury to his spinal cord has regained the ability to stand for short periods, take steps with help and…
Spinal Cord Stimulation and Recovery of Cardiovascular Function in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury This cohort study evaluates the feasibility of daily customized epidural stimulation configurations…
The authors previously reported on walking recovery in a nonambulatory child with chronic, severe, incomplete cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) after 76 sessions of locomotor…
One of the major themes during the 2005 III STEP (Linking Movement Science and Intervention) conference was the use of the World Health Organization’s (WHO)…
Locomotor Training Restores Walking in a Nonambulatory Child With Chronic, Severe, Incomplete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Andrea L Behrman, Preeti M Nair, Mark G Bowden,…
