Clinical assessment of body composition after spinal cord injury. An observational study.

Background: Persons who sustain a spinal cord injury (SCI) experience a dramatic loss of muscle and bone, and a dramatic increase in adipose tissue. It has been suggested that the muscle atrophy, obesity, and sublesional osteoporosis (SLOP) that occurs after SCI is due in part to the loss of volunta...

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Main Author: Totosy de Zepetnek, Julia O.
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4851