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Table 1 Demographic and SCI information for all patients and subgroups

From: Physical activity outside of structured therapy during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation

Variable

All Patients

Paraplegia

Tetraplegia

Ambulatorya

n

95

53

42

33

Gender (M/F)

68/27 (72/28)

37/16 (70/30)

31/11 (74/26)

24/9 (73/27)

Traumatic/nontraumatic

66/29 (70/30)

32/21 (60/40)

34/8 (81/19)

23/10 (70/30)

Discharge AIS grade (A/B/C/D)b

23/12/12/48 (24/13/13/50)

13/6/9/25 (25/11/17/47)

10/6/3/23 (24/14/7/55)

1/2/0/30 (3/6/0/91)

Age (years)

49 ± 18, 53

48 ± 18, 52

51 ± 17, 54

51 ± 17, 53

LOS in rehabilitation (days)

97 ± 46, 95

86 ± 38, 76

112 ± 51, 118

75 ± 44, 63

LOS in acute care (days)

39 ± 39, 26

32 ± 33, 22

48 ± 45, 31

20 ± 13, 16

  1. n number of patients, Values are n (%) or mean ± 1SD, median; AIS American Spinal Injury Society Impairment Scale, LOS length of stay
  2. aThe Ambulatory group is composed of a subset of all patients who were able to ambulate by the time of the discharge assessment
  3. bWhile the AIS is valid for traumatic SCI, it has not been validated in non-traumatic SCI