Recovery of locomotion after spinal cord injury: some facts and mechanisms

S Rossignol, A Frigon - Annual review of neuroscience, 2011 - annualreviews.org
After spinal cord injury (SCI), various sensorimotor functions can recover, ranging from
simple spinal reflexes to more elaborate motor patterns, such as locomotion. Locomotor …

Plasticity of the spinal neural circuitry after injury

VR Edgerton, NJK Tillakaratne, AJ Bigbee… - Annu. Rev …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Motor function is severely disrupted following spinal cord injury (SCI). The spinal
circuitry, however, exhibits a great degree of automaticity and plasticity after an injury …

Locomotor activity in spinal cord-injured persons

V Dietz, SJ Harkema - Journal of applied physiology, 2004 - journals.physiology.org
After a spinal cord injury (SCI) of the cat or rat, neuronal centers below the level of lesion
exhibit plasticity that can be exploited by specific training paradigms. In individuals with …

Sensorimotor stimulation to improve locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury

GD Muir, JD Steeves - Trends in neurosciences, 1997 - cell.com
Functional recovery after CNS injury may depend, in part, upon reorganization of
undamaged neural pathways. Spinal cord circuits are capable of significant reorganization …

Locomotion and its recovery after spinal injury

S Rossignol - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2000 - Elsevier
Recent advances indicate not only that the spinal cord has great potential for locomotor
recovery after lesion but also that locomotor training can optimise this recovery through …

Spinal cord injury: time to move?

S Rossignol, M Schwab, M Schwartz… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
This symposium aims at summarizing some of the scientific bases for current or planned
clinical trials in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). It stems from the interactions of four …

Strategies to restore motor functions after spinal cord injury

P Boulenguez, L Vinay - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
This review presents recent advances in the development of strategies to restore posture
and locomotion after spinal cord injury (SCI). A set of strategies focusing on the lesion site …

Neuronal plasticity after a human spinal cord injury: positive and negative effects

V Dietz - Experimental neurology, 2012 - Elsevier
In patients suffering an incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) an improvement in walking
function can be achieved by providing a functional training with an appropriate afferent …

Changes in spinal reflex and locomotor activity after a complete spinal cord injury: a common mechanism?

V Dietz, S Grillner, A Trepp, M Hubli, M Bolliger - Brain, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Locomotor activity and spinal reflexes (SRs) show common features in different mammals,
including humans. Here we report the time-course of the development of locomotor activity …

A review on locomotor training after spinal cord injury: reorganization of spinal neuronal circuits and recovery of motor function

AC Smith, M Knikou - Neural plasticity, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Locomotor training is a classic rehabilitation approach utilized with the aim of improving
sensorimotor function and walking ability in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Recent …