Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure provides a method of rehabilitating a person who has suffered spinal cord damage including the steps of providing exercise equipment capable of exercising a person's limbs, providing functional electrical stimulation to the person's limbs to be exercised in order to operate the exercise equipment, reducing the level of functional electrical stimulation as the person's muscles tire, decreasing a resistance provided by the exercise equipment or providing assistance to maintain an acceptable speed of the exercise equipment, and completely removing functional electrical stimulation to the person's limbs and providing assistance to maintain an acceptable speed of the exercise equipment. Also provided are apparatus to carry out the method.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of rehabilitating a person who has suffered spinal cord damage comprising the steps of: 1) providing exercise equipment capable of exercising a person's limbs, 2) providing functional electrical stimulation to the person's limbs to be exercised in order to operate the exercise equipment, 3) reducing the level of functional electrical stimulation as the person's muscles tire, 4) decreasing a resistance provided by the exercise equipment or providing assistance to maintain an acceptable speed of the exercise equipment, and 5) completely removing functional electrical stimulation to the person's limbs and providing assistance to maintain an acceptable speed of the exercise equipment.