Use of orthoses and orthopaedic technical devices in proximal spinal muscular atrophy. Results of survey in 194 SMA patients

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-311

  Fujak, Albert ^a   Kopschina, Carsten ^b   Forst, Raimund ^a   Mueller, Lutz Arne ^a   Forst, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

contractures; corsets; deformities; orthopaedic technical devices; orthoses; scoliosis; Spinal muscular atrophy; wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ORTHOPEDICS; ORTHOTICS; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCOLIOSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WHEELCHAIR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; ORTHOPEDICS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCOLIOSIS; WHEELCHAIRS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955821713     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2010.525292     Document Type: Article

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