Table 1: Demographic description and functional abilities.

Name1

Age2

Civil status3

Employment4

Accident5

Spinal Cord

Injury

Bowel/bladder

function6

Dysfunction of

hands6

Mobility6

Adrian

30-40/

married to

academic

road

incomplete C4

+/6+7

-/-7

wheelchair/6

 

30-40

Ann

 

trauma

 

 

 

walk

Belinda

60-70/

married to

middle-range

fall

incomplete C5

-/-

+/+

wheelchair/

 

60-70

Ben

training

 

 

 

 

walk with sticks, wheelchair

Cindy

60-70/

married to

pensioner

road

incomplete C5

-/+

+/+

walk with rollator/

 

60-70

Charles

 

trauma

 

 

 

walk, wheelchair

Debbie

25-30

single

academic

road trauma

incomplete C5

-/+

+/+

walk with rollator/ walk

Edward

15-20/

has a

theoretical

road

severe incomplete

-/-

+/-

wheelchair/

 

15-20

girlfriend

highschool

trauma

Th1

 

 

wheelchair, walk with rollator

Frank

30-40/

married to

skilled worker

industrial

severe incomplete

-/-

-/-

wheelchair/

 

30-40

Frida

 

accident

L1

 

 

wheelchair, walk with sticks

Georg

30-40/

married to

skilled worker

industrial

complete

-/-

+/+

wheelchair/

 

30-40

Geogina

 

accident

Th4+Th5

 

 

wheelchair

Hank

40-50/

married to

unskilled

industrial

complete Th11

-/-

-/-

wheelchair/

 

40-50

Henny

worker

accident

 

 

 

wheelchair

Isabel

40-50/

married to

middle-range

fall

incomplete

-/+

+/+

wheelchair/ walk, walk with

 

60-70

Ib

training

 

C7+Th1

 

 

sticks, wheelchair

Kate

40-50/

married to

middle-range

road

severe incomplete

-/-

+/+

wheelchair/

 

40-50

Kent

training

trauma

C7+Th1

 

 

wheelchair

Larry

30-40/

married to

skilled worker

road

complete Th4

-/-

-/-

wheelchair/

 

30-40

Laura

 

trauma

 

 

 

wheelchair

1Ficturaus name 2Age at the time of the accident              3Civil atatus at the time of the accident

4Imployment at the time of the accident 5Type of accident          64 weeks versus 2 years after the accident

7+ means normal function          7– means reduced function.