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Engagement in self-care activities

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Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

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Abstract

For people who do not have a disability, physical health is rarely a goal in its own right. Rather, having a healthy body allows attainment of those things that are important in one’s life — activities that make life worth living. The same is true for people with disabilities.

Rehabilitation professionals’ views of the real-life situation of people with disabilities may be biased by seeing only those with health problems, and then only in a hospital setting. They are likely to have less exposure to people who are living successfully in the community, yet these are the people with disabilities who have discovered means of coping that could benefit recently discharged individuals.

(Nosek, 1993)

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Hammell, K.W. (1995). Engagement in self-care activities. In: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. Therapy in Practice Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4451-1_6

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