ABSTRACT
Restoration of mobility is a major goal in neurological rehabilitation, preventing long-term disability and handicap. Mobility includes walking, standing up, sitting down, weight shifting from one leg to the other, turning around, initiating and stopping locomotion, as well as climbing stairs. Therapeutic methods to retrain gait functions in the most common syndromes will be presented (i.e. in hemiplegia caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury, paraplegia caused by spinal cord injuries and in Parkinson’s disease). Goals of therapy include security and safety, speed and endurance, accuracy and low variability, flexibility and adaptability to the surroundings.
