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. 2025 Mar 18;29(1):120.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-025-05297-8.

Early exercise therapy in patients with severe traumatic spinal cord injury: is it feasible in the ICU?

Antoine Dionne  1   2 , David Magnuson  3 , Andréane Richard-Denis  1   2 , Yvan Petit  2   4 , Dorothy Barthélémy  5   6 , Francis Bernard  1   2 , Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong  7   8   9
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Early exercise therapy in patients with severe traumatic spinal cord injury: is it feasible in the ICU?

Antoine Dionne et al. Crit Care. .
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Declarations. Ethical approval and informed consent: All patients provided informed written consent before enrollment. This study was approved by the Comité d’Éthique de la recherche du CIUSSS du Nord-de-L’Île de Montréal (“Mobilisation précoce suite à une lésion médullaire”, study #2020–1901, approved on March 12th, 2020) and was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.

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