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Circuit Resistance Training for Persons with Spinal Cord Injuries reviews how exercise— specifically, resistance training—can be employed to enhance the lifestyle of individuals living with spinal cord injuries. Unfortunately, many of the traditional upper-body exercise modalities for individuals with spinal cord injuries have serious limitations involving placing Undue stress on the user’s shoulders. The DVD features a series of resistance exercises that can be performed in circuit fashion and combined with low-resistance, arm ergometry exercises to collectively minimize the demands placed on the user’s shoulders. Among the topics covered: The challenges facing individuals with spinal cord injuries, the spinal cord injury-related deficits and function-limiting adaptations that occur, secondary disabilities suffered by individuals with spinal cord injuries, health risks of persons with spinal cord injuries, limitations of traditional upper-body exercise modalities, and circuit resistance training. Produced in cooperation with the National Strength and Conditioning Association.