Abstract
After 50 years of formal rehabilitation services for people with spinal cord injuries it is time to re-evaluate what is being attempted, what is being achieved and what should be the way forward.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
(G.B. Shaw, 1903)
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Hammell, K.W. (1995). The way forward. In: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. Therapy in Practice Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4451-1_11
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