SKIN STRESS AND BLOOD-FLOW IN SITTING PARAPLEGIC PATIENTS
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 65 (4) , 186-190
Abstract
Sitting paraplegic subjects, tested on a hard seat at a location 2-3 cm lateral to the ischial tuberosities, develop roughly the same median pressure values (range 52-60 mmHg) as groups of normal subjects and hospitalized geriatric patients. Median paraplegic and hospitalized geriatric shear values are roughly 3 times median normal values. Median rates of pulsatile skin blood flow volumes for sitting paraplegic subjects, while roughly equal to those of hospitalized geriatric subjects, are only 1/3 those of comparable normal subjects.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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