Evidence-based strategies to preserve shoulder function in manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury

Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 86-119

  Requejo, Philip S ^a   Mulroy, Sara J ^a   Haubert, Lisa Lighthall ^a   Newsam, Craig J ^a   Gronley, JoAnne K ^a   Perry, Jacquelin ^a  

^a RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Joint loading; Muscular demands electromyography; Pain; Paraplegia; Shoulder; Spinal cord injury; Tetraplegia; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; JOINT FUNCTION; POWERED WHEELCHAIR; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SHOULDER; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WEIGHT BEARING; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 41849128914     PISSN: 10820744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/sci1304-86     Document Type: Review

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