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Promotion of Pressure-relief Exercising in a Spinal Injury Patient: A Multiple Baseline Across Settings Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Sally Carr
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Therapy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Barbara Wilson
Affiliation:
Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre, Oxford, England

Extract

A multiple baseline design was used to investigate the efficacy of a verbal feedback procedure in increasing the performance of pressure relief exercises in a spinal injury patient. Results showed that the procedure resulted in substantial increases in rates of lifting, with concommittent improvements in pressure sores. At 2½ months follow-up the patient's skin was still clear, but it is unlikely that this can be attributed to continued good performance of pressure-relief exercises.

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Clinical Section
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1983

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