F- CLINICAL ASPECTS OF SPINAL CORD INJURIES
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FIG. 233.
In the rehabilitation of paraplegics and tetraplegics, water therapy and training for
water sport play a very essential part, and a swimming pool of adequate size—preferably
25 m in length—should be one of the essential equipments of a spinal injuries centre.
The former Ministry of Pensions took up the challenge and, in spite of severe economic
stringencies in Great Britain as a result of the Second World War, provided the facilities
FIG. 234. Physiotherapy, punch ball exercises in the gym, paraplegic patients.
