Treadmill Training in Multiple Sclerosis: Can Body Weight Support or Robot Assistance Provide Added Value? A Systematic Review

Table 1

Key words and MeSH terms and their combinations that were used in the literature search. In the search keys: between the columns “AND” was used. The key words “Multiple Sclerosis”, “Gait”, “Walking”, “Exercise”, and “Exercise Therapy” were used as MeSH terms in the database PubMed.

P: population	I: intervention	C: comparison	O: outcome
Multiple sclerosis	(Walking) OR (gait) OR (step) AND; (robot-assisted) OR (body weight support) OR (body weight supported) OR (partial body weight) OR (partial body weight supported) OR (weight-support) OR (weight-supported) OR (treadmill) OR (motorized rehabilitation) OR (motorized training) OR (automatic orthoses) OR (locomotor rehabilitation) OR (locomotor training) AND; (exercise) OR (exercise therapy) OR (training) OR (rehabilitation)	Conventional therapies	(walking speed) OR (gait speed) OR (walking distance) OR (walking capacity) OR (walking endurance) OR (stride length) OR (step length)