Wound management & prevention
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Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at high risk of pressure injury (PrI) development, but there is limited information about the effect of injury patterns (ie, upper motor neuron [UMN] or lower motor neuron [LMN] presentations) on PrI risk. ⋯ The results of this study confirm that patients with SCI have a high rate of PrI development. The percentage of PrIs was significantly higher in the LMN than in the UMN group. Additional studies to examine the other variables that were significantly different between groups and their effect on PrI risk are needed.