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Pressure ulcers, self-concept and body image in spinal cord injury patients
1Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California, USA.
SCI Nursing : a Publication of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
|March 25, 1998
Abstract:
The occurrence of pressure ulcers is an important problem for persons with spinal cord injury. Pressure ulcers, though preventable, can engender serious physical and psychological consequences. Living with a spinal cord injury entails the adaptive mechanisms described by Roy (Andrews & Roy, 1991).