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Can spinal cord injured animals walk on the treadmill?

April 26, 2017animals Cord Spinal treadmill walk

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Can spinal cord injured animals walk on the treadmill?

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Spinal cord injured rodents are able to execute stepping on the treadmill. In animals with total hemisection, the forelimbs of the animals attempt to compensate for hind limbs paralysis. The DigiGait system is able to quantify the asymmetry between forelimb and hind limb stepping as the animals recover from spinal cord injury. Several gait metrics are of interest in spinal cord injured animals, including phase dispersion, paw placement angle, and toe spread.