For those who are paraplegic, Toula believes it is a little easier because they can use their arms and hands to feed, wash and change the baby, but for a
tetraplegic it is a lot harder because they have to rely on hired help or family members to do much of the work, as Toula did.
Moreover, 50(92.6%) participants were paraplegic while 4(7.4%) were
tetraplegic (Table-1).
The
tetraplegic group was using the Tongue Drive System just one day each week, but their improvement in performance was dramatic.
Until now, other rehabilitative approaches also have been attempted to improve hand function in persons with
tetraplegic SCI [18-25].
IN the final shoot-out for the Disabled Leagues Singles Championship, Washington SC's northern regional group six ambulant winner Phil Taylor came through a nip-andtuck contest to beat Byker PTE's former world
tetraplegic champion Terry Melia.
Before the stem cells were transplanted, all seven patients were determined to be Class A, which means they were "chronically paraplegic or
tetraplegic" with little or no motor function, Lima wrote.
From a clinical point of view, the analysis of upper limb motion reveled to be very important for the evaluation of non walking subjects and for that of patients that have a limited functional movement or kinematical abnormalities in upper limbs, such as hemiplegic and
tetraplegic patients in Cerebral Palsy, too.
There are five types of SCI: Ventilator Dependent, high
Tetraplegic, low
Tetraplegic, Paraplegic and Incomplete Motor Functional.(3) A reduction in life expectancy is expected for any type of SCI and Table 3 shows the average reduction in life expectancy for each type of injury.
Social and vocational reintegration of paraplegic and
tetraplegic patients in Switzerland.
He had suffered a fractured neck which has left him
tetraplegic.