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Article: Leading concerns identified. (for long-term spinal cord injury survivors)
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- Paraplegia News
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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What are the leading secondary complications and priority health concerns of long-term SCI survivors? Accepting the challenge to find the answers, 32 consumers and community activists with spinal-cord injuries, healthcare and rehabilitation professionals, and researchers met with four representatives from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) & Prevention.
The group convened in Denver at a working conference titled "Aging With Spinal Cord Injury: Developing Effective Interventions to Minimize Secondary Conditions" and sorted through their personal experiences, professional expertise, clinical impressions, and data from several key studies of long-term SCI. ...