SPINAL CORD INJURED WOMEN'S CONCERNS: MENSTRUATION AND PREGNANCY
Rehabilitation NursingPublished 1 September 1982
Suzanne J. Axel
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An area of particular concern to women is menstruation, since it is intimately connected to role expectations about becoming a mother and is central to the female physically as well as psychologically.
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Suzanne J. Axel, RN, BSN, MA, CNRN, has been a staff nurse and then supervisor of the brain injury unit at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, TX. The unit population included spinal cord injured women. Currently she is a 3–11 house supervisor at TIRR.
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