Seating pressures with conventional and dynamic wheelchair cushions in tetraplegia

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 566-571

  Burns, Stephen P ^a,b   Betz, Kendra L ^a  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; HUMAN; ISCHIUM; MALE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 0032920857     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(99)90201-0     Document Type: Article

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