Community Ambulation Training
The goal of the community ambulation training is also to translate the stepping capacity gained by re-training the nervous system during step training into safe overground ambulation. The same locomotor training principles used during step training and overground ambulation outside of the clinical environment. The therapist selects the least restrictive assistive device that will provide necessary safety and independence. The patient is instructed on strategies to use the device in a manner that is consistent with the locomotor training principles.
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