The Spinal Cord Injury Laboratory at UT Southwestern Medical Center serves as a center for translation of basic research into clinical practice.

The primary research aim is to understand neural mechanisms responsible for human locomotion and its recovery after neurologic injury.   We are interested where in the brain and spinal cord neuroplasticity takes place.  We use body weight supported treadmill training to retrain the ability to walk following a spinal cord injury.  Repetitive locomotor training may promote spinal and supraspinal learning and reorganize or strengthen the neural circuitry responsible for locomotion.  The results of these studies contribute to the knowledge about the human fundamental mechanisms of control of locomotion and may provide strategies than can be used by clinical researchers for the recovery of walking for patients following a spinal cord injury.

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