 Standard rhythmic robot-assisted locomotor training on a bodyweight-supported treadmill LT-BWST used progressively increased speed each week. Novel discrete robot-assisted LT-BWST used progressive decrease in speed. The novel approach of slowing down the treadmill reduced momentum. If speed had been increased standard approach, momentum would have increased momentum mass velocity; and the resulting, passive propulsion of momentum would have diminished the role of cortical skills needed to plan, initiate, and overtly control gait. In sum, the novel protocol used a slower-than-standard treadmill speed in order to provide a window of time sufficient for the corticomotor system to process information, learn, and adjust its response to internal and external feedback eg, proprioceptive input; therapist input during robot-assisted LT-BWST. 