INTRODUCTION: The locomotor training with bodyweight support (LTBWS) has been used for approximately twenty years in the field of rehabilitation in patients who suffer from neurological pathologies. The LTBWS favors these improvements muscle, cardiovascular and osteo-psychological, because maximum residual potential develops the body, providing reintegration into the familial, social and professional. OBJECTIVE: Identify the main methods of assessment and their parameters LTBWS with the purpose of contributing to the establishment of reliable evidence for the rehabilitation practice of people with spinal cord. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Original articles were analyzed, published between 2000 and 2011, involving gait training after spinal cord, with or without partial body weight support, and training assistance technologies such as functional electrical stimulation and biofeedback among others. RESULTS: The majority of the participants of the studies was male; injury levels ranged from C3 to L3, ASIA had scores from A to D; injury times ranged from 0.3 months 33 years. Also it was noted that there is no consensus regarding LTBWS Protocol. CONCLUSION: The locomotor training with bodyweight support shows up, viable in the rehabilitation of patients who suffer from a neurological pathology such as the spinal cord, regardless of training protocol used the benefits relating to increases in muscular strength, maintaining or increasing bone density, decreased heart rate, increase in physical conditioning are present.
Weight-bearing; Gait; Spinal cord injury
