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Research Papers

Capturing the psychosocial impacts of falls from the perspectives of wheelchair users with spinal cord injury through photo-elicitation

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Pages 2680-2689 | Received 29 Aug 2019, Accepted 24 Dec 2019, Published online: 06 Jan 2020

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