Shoulder pain in the Swiss spinal cord injury community: prevalence and associated factors.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of shoulder pain and to identify factors associated with shoulder pain in a nationwide survey of individuals living with spinal cord injury (SCI) in Switzerland.

Methods: Data was collected through the 2012 community survey of the Swiss SCI Cohort Study (SwiSCI) (N = 1549; age 52.3 ± 14.

Age-related variation in mobility independence among wheelchair users with spinal cord injury: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: To evaluate age-related variation in mobility independence among community-living wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Community Survey (2011-2013) as part of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study.

Setting: Community.

Determinants of handbike use in persons with spinal cord injury: results of a community survey in Switzerland.

Purpose: To examine the prevalence and determinants of handbike use in persons living with spinal cord injury in Switzerland.

Method: A population-based cross-sectional survey in Switzerland.

Results: The crude prevalence of handbike use among the 1549 participants was 22.

Aspects of functioning and environmental factors in medical work capacity evaluations of persons with chronic widespread pain and low back pain can be represented by a combination of applicable ICF Core Sets.

Background: Medical work capacity evaluations play a key role in social security schemes because they usually form the basis for eligibility decisions regarding disability benefits. However, the evaluations are often poorly standardized and lack transparency as decisions on work capacity are based on a claimant's disease rather than on his or her functional capacity. A comprehensive and consistent illustration of a claimant's lived experience in relation to functioning, applying the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the ICF Core Sets (ICF-CS), potentially enhances transparency and standardization of work capacity evaluations.