Locomotor Rehabilitation: A Resource For Your SCI NLCP
Description:
“Locomotor Training” is a rehabilitative approach for persons with neurologic dysfunction that has been researched and proposed to affect a patient’s functional abilities by activating the nervous system below the injury, resulting in improved balance, transfers, standing and, recovery of walking. Locomotor Training is based on current knowledge of how the brain and spinal cord control stepping and how the nervous system learns (or relearns) a motor skill.
“Locomotor Training” is a rehabilitative approach for persons with neurologic dysfunction that has been researched and proposed to affect a patient’s functional abilities by activating the nervous system below the injury, resulting in improved balance, transfers, standing and, recovery of walking. Locomotor Training is based on current knowledge of how the brain and spinal cord control stepping and how the nervous system learns (or relearns) a motor skill.
CEU: 1
Date Presented: May 13th 2020
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Watson, PT, DPT, NCS
Bio: Elizabeth Watson is the Locomotor Training Clinic Supervisor at the Magee Rehabilitation Center at Jefferson Health system in Philadelphia PA. She is a published author and presenter on the topic of the neurological rehabilitation of the patient with spinal cord injuries.