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Disability in spinal cord injury
differentiate between various severities and levels of
SCI, when planning rehabilitative services.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Univer-
sity and University Hospital (19.5.2015, 73/2015). The ethical
standards of the World Medical Association Helsinki Declara-
tion of 1975, as revised in 1983, were followed.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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