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Original Research

Reliability of the Spanish version of the wheelchair skills test 4.2 for manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury

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Pages 788-791 | Received 22 Nov 2017, Accepted 06 Apr 2018, Published online: 03 May 2018

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