Cardiovascular changes associated with skeletal muscle spasm intetraplegicman.
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It also has quadriplegics, tetraplegics, and sufferers of muscular dystrophy and trauma injuries.
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I should also like to say a word about long-term care, especially of tetraplegics whose families cannot always look after them at home.
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Atetraplegic, someone with four limbs paralysed, needs a great deal of help.
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The numbers of these homeless young tetraplegics are small, but the need for a home with specialised care is great.
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The association provided me with a useful statement of the requirements of tetraplegics, the crucial conclusion of which is the need for 24-hour care.
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He istetraplegicand paralysed from the neck down.
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They have had serious injuries and by breaking their necks have become tetraplegics.
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I am thinking in terms of tetraplegics, paraplegics, and people with advanced multiple sclerosis.
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Another man, againtetraplegicfrom the age of 19, needs 24-hour care from two personal assistants the whole time.
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Some of their members, like high tetraplegics (neck injuries), need electric wheelchairs for indoor and outdoor use.
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For whatever reason, the care was not of the standard needed to nurse a relatively youngtetraplegic.
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In the case of tetraplegics we are talking about catheterisation and manual evacuation of the bowel.
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There seems to be a remarkable lack of residential facilities for the tetraplegics.
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These can be so severe in the case of atetraplegicthat they can throw you out of bed or out of your chair.
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