Treino locomotor com suporte de peso corporal na lesão medular incompleta

Abstract

Objective. The objective was to perform a literature review on the use of locomotor training in patients with incomplete spinal cord in-jury in order to verify their effects for the running of these patients. Method. We performed the search portal’s medline, scielo and bvs from the key words: body weight-supported treadmill training - BW-STT, supported treadmill ambulation training - STAT, support of body weight - SPC, spinal cord injury. Articles that could be collected in full in the last 18 years were analyzed. Discussion. Spinal cord injury is a severe neurological syndrome that causes several serious compromises including the gait. To improve this process, it has be-gun the practice of rehabilitation in connection with support of body weight. The wide use of this technique for rehabilitation due to ease of travel for training, the satisfaction of patients during treatment and, especially, the results generated. Conclusion. Studies show that he gait training with body weight support is a safe and reliable means that appeared to innovate and functional rehabilitation of gait. There is no scientific evidence to assert that the BWSTT is a superior method to other therapies.