Remote monitoring of sitting behaviors for community-dwelling manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-71

  Yang, Y S ^a   Chang, G L ^b   Hsu, M J ^a   Chang, J J ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Pressure ulcers; Spinal cord injuries; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MONITORING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUADRIPLEGIA; SITTING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PARAPLEGIA; POSTURE; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 58149397334     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2008.72     Document Type: Article

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