Incidence and Factors Associated With Falls in Independent Ambulatory Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: A 6-Month Prospective Study | Zendy

Sirisuda Phonthee | Zendy; Jiamjit Saengsuwan | Zendy; Wantana Siritaratiwat | Zendy; Sugalya Amatachaya | Zendy

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Incidence and Factors Associated With Falls in Independent Ambulatory Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: A 6-Month Prospective Study

Author(s) -

Sirisuda Phonthee,

Jiamjit Saengsuwan,

Wantana Siritaratiwat,

Sugalya Amatachaya

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20120467

Subject(s) - fear of falling , medicine , ambulatory , physical therapy , spinal cord injury , injury prevention , poison control , logistic regression , fall prevention , incidence (geometry) , falling (accident) , activities of daily living , physical medicine and rehabilitation , emergency medicine , spinal cord , psychiatry , physics , optics

Sensorimotor impairments following spinal cord injury (SCI) affect mobility and subsequently increase the risk of falls to patients. However, most of the fall data for these patients were retrospectively gathered.

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