Secondary Health Conditions, Activity Limitations, and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults With Long‐Term Spinal Cord Injury

Many individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) have lived several decades with their injury, leading to a need for a deeper understanding of factors associated with healthy aging in people with long‐term SCI.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.09.004PMID 27647215
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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