Table 1.
Personal and disease-related characteristics of participants (n = 50)
| Gender (% male) | 50 |
| Age (mean ± SD in years) | 21.2 ± 4.5 |
| Height (mean ± SD in m) | 1.57 ± 0.12 |
| Body mass (mean ± SD in kg) | 67.6 ± 15.6 |
| Level of lesion (%) | |
| Thoracic | 2 |
| Thoracolumbar | 14 |
| Lumbar | 28 |
| Lumbosacral | 42 |
| Sacral | 14 |
| Hydrocephalus (%) | 82 |
| Ambulatory status (%)a | |
| Community ambulator | 30 |
| Household ambulator | 14 |
| Non (functional) ambulator | 56 |
| Educational level (%) | |
| Low | 37 |
| Medium | 39 |
| High | 24 |
aNo gender differences as tested with a Chi square test