The phrase "able-bodied patients" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or healthcare contexts to refer to patients who do not have physical disabilities or impairments.
Example: "The study focused on able-bodied patients to assess the effectiveness of the new treatment."
Alternatives: "physically fit patients" or "non-disabled patients".
SCI patients are expected to have a longer hospital stay than general able-bodied patients as their needs are more complex.20 Positive nutrition-risk screening does not imply undernutrition,12 it highlights the clinical importance of access to nutritional advice from a dietitian7, 21 and repeated nutrition screening in SCI patients, as this allows a re-evaluation of a patient's nutritional status.
Only a few able-bodied patients still lived there; thousands had once marked their days by the steam whistle that signaled meals, quitting time and lights out.
In clinical practice it requires more resources and time to weigh stroke patients who are bedridden compared with more able-bodied patients.
Several BCI studies (Pfurtscheller et al., 2000, Pfurtscheller et al., 2009) showed that compared to the able-bodied, SCI patients have distinctive activation patters and reduced event related desynchronisation during MI causing poor performance of a BCI classifier.
We analyzed dynamic EEG responses during imaginary movements of arms and legs in 3 groups of 10 volunteers each, comprising able-bodied people, paraplegic patients with CNP (lower abdomen and legs), and paraplegic patients without CNP.
The groups comprised of nine able-bodied people, ten paraplegic patients with CNP (lower abdomen and legs) and nine paraplegic patients without CNP.
"To load able-bodied staff before you let patients off a roof is reprehensible".
Patients: Five able-bodied subjects; comparison with data from the literature on persons with TF amputations.
Highest 2-class classification accuracy was achieved for CSP classifier covering wider cortical area: 82 ± 7% for patients with CNP, 82 ± 4% for able-bodied and 78 ± 5% for patients with no pain.
Participants: Eleven stable stroke patients and 11 able-bodied subjects.
Patients: Ten complete high thoracic SCI (level T2-8) patients, 10 complete low thoracic SCI (level T9-12) pandents, and 10 matched able-bodied controls.
