Walking and Gait

Abstract

The important role of the Central Nervous System (CNS) in walking creates a walking pattern. In other words, that system invents appropriate motive power, it controls the center of gravity, it integrates afferent information from sight, hearing, the vestibular organ and the peripheral systems and muscular elasticity must be controlled. In a moment human CNS does it, almost automatically. In this automatic system, spinal cord functions (central pattern generators: CPGs) are remarkable. CPGs is the neuron circuit network which plays a central role in forming such a pattern when a lot of movement cell groups are active in the pattern having to do with a fixed form as to time and sapce. In treatment, in which the principal objective is the reaquirement of walking in a CVA patient, it is necessary to consider activating the functions (CPGs) of the spinal cord. It it is important to facilitate equilibrium reactions, righting reactions and step balances to do it.