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A more livable life now: rehabilitation research looks to high-tech.

Publication: Inside MS
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
At UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, Dr. Barbara Giesser works with a team that is testing a strikingly different approach to helping people with MS improve their ability to walk. A soft-spoken woman who has devoted her career to MS clinical care and research, Dr. Giesser is a lifelong believer in the efficacy of hope and the importance of good hard data. The rehabilitation technique she is studying--known as "locomotor" training--involves moving the legs in the correct pattern for walking.

"We take walking for granted, unless we lose the ability," Dr. Giesser said. "Walking is one of the first things we learn as babies," she...

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