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Christa Ochoa is a leading investigator in neurorehabilitation, with a focused expertise in overground robotic exoskeleton gait training for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke. Her work directly addresses a critical gap in clinical practice: the lack of evidence-based guidelines for integrating robotic exoskeletons into inpatient rehabilitation. Ochoa’s major contributions include a landmark randomized control trial (2025) that provides rigorous efficacy data for robotic gait training in incomplete SCI, and a foundational retrospective study (2020, 25 citations) that identified key clinical characteristics associated with successful exoskeleton use. She is also advancing the field through her detailed clinical trial protocol (2024, 4 citations), which aims to determine the optimal dosing and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying robotic gait training. By systematically investigating how much therapy is needed and why it works, Ochoa is moving robotic rehabilitation from promising technology to a precisely prescribed, evidence-based intervention. Her work is essential reading for clinicians and researchers seeking to maximize functional recovery and improve mobility outcomes for people with neurological injury.