Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) commonly require a wheelchair ... assistive technologies, wheelchair selection, vendor selection, wheelchair fitting, and seating evaluation. Select condition of ...

Objectives: To describe seating in individuals with complete thoracic spinal cord injury (SCI ... surface or in the wheelchair. Most SCI subjects positioned the C7 in the midline (Table 3).

The location of the injury also determines its type. There are four sections of the spinal cord: cervical spine (vertebrae C1 through C7, which contain ... braces or use a wheelchair.

Test subjects found that they could easily grasp objects anywhere they could reach their arm, without having to rotate their bodies, which can cause wheelchair ... C5-C7 Spinal Cord Injury With ...

Among wheelchair users with spinal cord injury 42 percent reported adverse consequences related to needing wheelchair repair, according to a team of experts in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

The man, whose name has not been released, crushed his spinal cord at the C7 vertebrae in the base of his neck in a 2008 motor vehicle accident. The injury severed the nerve circuits that would ...

Prior to the procedure, the patient had no hand function due to a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, which is the lowest bone in the neck. However, because associated nerves attach to the ...

Many patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) commonly require a wheelchair for primary mobility ... as an auxiliary resource for the primary care of patients with spinal cord injury.The contents of ...