Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury Center
Daniel E. Graves, Ph.D., Co-Director
William H. Donovan, M.D., Co-Director
The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System provides services along the entire continuum of care from emergency medical service to long-term follow-up and management of secondary conditions.
The TMSCIS includes a module designed to develop an outcome measure of trunk and postural control to be utilized in activity-based therapy programs like locomotor training.
The outcomes of large scale clinical trials of locomotor training highlight the need for outcome measures that are designed to capture changes brought about by translational research that may not have been necessary for more traditional therapy programs. This scale development project incorporates item response theory methods as well as reliability and validity investigations in a minimum of four model systems.
