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Clinical Practice Guideline to Improve Locomotor Function Following Chronic Stroke, Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, and Brain Injury (CPG+)
Overview
Suggests that task-specific walking training should be performed to improve walking speed and distance in those with acute-onset CNS injury although only at higher intensities or with augmented feedback.
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Date: January 1, 2020
Contact: practice@apta.org
Content Type: CPG
80 and over (80+), Middle Aged (45-64), Aged (65+), Adult (25-44), Young Adult (19-24)
Hornby TG, PT, PhD; Reisman DS, PT, PhD; Ward IG, PT, DPT; Scheets PL, PT, DPT; Miller A, PT, DPT; Haddad D, PT, DPT; Fox EJ, PT, PhD; Collaborators: Fritz N, PT, PhD; Hawkins K, PT, PhD; Henderson CE, PT, PhD; Hendron KL, PT, PhD; Holleran CL, PT, DHS; Lynskey JE, PT, PhD; Walter A, PT, DPT; and the Locomotor CPG Appraisal Team
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