Relationships between wheelchair skills, wheelchair mobility and level of injury in individuals with spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-41

  Lemay, V ^a,b   Routhier, F ^a,b   Noreau, L ^a,b   Phang, S H ^c   Martin Ginis, K A ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RÉADAPTATION EN DÉFICIENCE PHYSIQUE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

mobility; spinal cord injury; wheelchair; wheelchair skills

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WHEELCHAIRS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857033302     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2011.98     Document Type: Article

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