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Correspondence to Dr. Trumbower: randy.trumbower@emory.edu
Heather B. Hayes, PhD, and Arun Jayaraman, PT, PhD, contributed to study design, participant recruitment, data collection, analyses, and interpretation.
Dr. Hayes also performed statistical analyses (with consultation from biostatistician Kirk Easley, Masters of Applied Statistics), wrote the first draft of manuscript, and contributed to manuscript revisions and approval of final submission.
Megan Herrmann, DPT, contributed to participant recruitment, screening, blind rating, data collection and analyses, as well as approval of final submission.
Gordon S. Mitchell, PhD, and William Z. Rymer, MD, PhD, contributed to development of study concept and design, as well as data interpretation, literature search, figures, and manuscript revisions and approval of final submission.
Randy D. Trumbower, PT, PhD, was the principal investigator for this study.
He contributed to development of study concept and design, as well as data analyses and interpretation, literature search, figures, and manuscript revisions.
As corresponding author, he had full access to all data and final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
The authors thank Mike Jones, PhD, and Keith Tansey, MD, PhD, for assistance with allocating personnel and participant recruitment from the Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA; Leslie VanHeil, PT, DScPT, Lauren McCollough, DPT, Karly Bishop, DO, for their assistance with subject recruitment, screening, and blind rating; Ian Cooke, Matthew Freeman, Victoria Stahl, PhD, and Sean Deeny, PhD, for assistance with data collection; and Kirk Easley, MS, for assistance with statistical analyses.
The authors thank members of the Data Safety and Monitoring Board, particularly David Burke, MD, and Dale Strasser, MD.
The authors extend special thanks to all study participants.
H. Hayes reports no disclosures.
M. Herrmann reports no disclosures.
Dr. Rymer has served as a consultant for Allergan, a pharmaceutical company.
He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
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Support for this work was provided by the US Department of Defense Spinal Cord Injury Research Program grant SC090355P2.
A. Jayaraman received research support by Ottobock Corporation, a rehabilitation technology company, USAMRAA Department of Defense W81XWH-10-C-1055, the NIH 2R44HD044271, and US Department of Education NIDRR H133E120010.
He is funded by the NIH (HL69064;, HL80209;, HL111598;) and the Department of Defense (SC090355P2). W. Rymer serves as a member of the scientific advisory board of Hocoma International, a rehabilitation technology company, and the Neilsen Foundation, a spinal cord injury not-for-profit.
R. Trumbower received research support by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, the Department of Defense SC090355P2, and the NIH K12 HD055931.
Daily intermittent hypoxia enhances walking after chronic spinal cord injury A randomized trial
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