Most Recent Articles from Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy

• Affirming the Fundamentals in an Age of High-Tech Rehabilitation 

  I write this on the flight home from an international motor control conference in Europe. Notwithstanding the excellent presentations, as is often...

  09/01/09 by Field-Fote, Edelle C · More from publication

• Treadmill-Based Locomotor Training with Leg Weights to Enhance Functional Ambulation in People with Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study 

  Background and Purpose: Novel locomotor training strategies for individuals with disorders of the central nervous system have been associated with...

  09/01/09 by Lam, Tania; Luttmann, Kathryn; Houldin, Adina; Chan, Catherine · More from publication

• Accuracy of Individual Berg Balance Scale Items Compared with the Total Berg Score for Classifying People with Chronic Stroke According to Fall History, The 

  Background and Purpose: To determine whether individual Berg Balance Scale (BBS) items or a group of items would have greater accuracy than the...

  09/01/09 by Alzayer, Lamia; Beninato, Marianne; Portney, Leslie G · More from publication

• Characterizing Gait, Locomotor Status, and Disease Severity in Children and Adolescents with Friedreich Ataxia 

  Background and Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe gait parameters in children and adolescents with a diagnosis of Friedreich ataxia...

  09/01/09 by Croarkin, Earllaine; Maring, Joyce; Pfalzer, Lucinda; Harris-Love, Michael; Siegel, Karen; DiProspero, Nicholas · More from publication

• Use of an Electrotactile Vestibular Substitution System to Facilitate Balance and Gait of an Individual with Gentamicin-Induced Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction and Bilateral Transtibial Amputation 

  Background and Purpose: This case report describes the use of an electrotactile vestibular substitution system (ETVSS; BrainPort Balance Device,...

  09/01/09 by Robinson, Barbara Susan; Cook, Jeanne L; Richburg, Cynthia McCormick; Price, Stephen E · More from publication

• Challenge-Oriented Gait and Balance Training in Sporadic Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy: A Case Study 

  Background and Purpose: Sporadic olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA) is a rare and debilitating neurologic disease of insidious onset. It is...

  09/01/09 by Landers, Merrill; Adams, Melissa; Acosta, Keri; Fox, Andrew · More from publication

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