Wheelchair tilt-in-space and recline does not reduce sacral skin perfusion as changing from the upright to the tilted and reclined position in people with spinal cord injury

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1207-1210

  Jan, Yih Kuen ^a   Crane, Barbara A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser Doppler flowmetry; Pressure ulcer; Rehabilitation; Skin; Spinal cord injuries; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SACRUM; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE; TILTING; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRESSURE ULCER; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SACRUM; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WEIGHT-BEARING; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 84878244792     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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