Sexual rehabilitation of women with a spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 234-241

  Forsythe, E ^a   Horsewell, J E ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RYK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Peer counselling; Sexual activity; Sexual rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Women with SCI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; COUNSELING; DENMARK; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LUBRICATION; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINA;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX COUNSELING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33645727917     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101844     Document Type: Article

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