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Correspondence to “Walking improvement in chronic incomplete spinal cord injury with exoskeleton robotic training (WISE): a randomized controlled trial”

Spinal Cord volume 62, pages 721–722 (2024)Cite this article

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TO THE EDITOR:

I have read the research article entitled “Walking improvement in chronic incomplete spinal cord injury with exoskeleton robotic training (WISE): a randomized controlled trial” by Edwards et al., published in Spinal Cord. 2022 Jun;60(6):522–532 [1]. I want to congratulate the authors for this successful article and make some contributions. The article covers very important results and provides an opportunity to learn many new things. However, I am writing to address some concerns regarding the interpretation and representation of some results.

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ŞİPAL, M.S. Correspondence to “Walking improvement in chronic incomplete spinal cord injury with exoskeleton robotic training (WISE): a randomized controlled trial”. Spinal Cord 62, 721–722 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-024-01043-z

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