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Evidence for a human spinal stepping generator
D J Nicol1, M H Granat, R H Baxendale
1Department of Biological Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.
Brain Research
|July 3, 1995
Abstract:
Flexion reflexes elicited by surface stimulation in spinal cord-injured man have been used to provide limb flexion in gait restoration. In this study, the pattern of the flexion reflexes observed in one subject supports the theory that a spinal stepping generator exists in man.