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Supported by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (grant no. 2006-ABI-RTBI-432); Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation-Réseau provincial de recherche en adaptation-réadaptation (grant no. ONF-2011-ONF-REPAR2-883); the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute; the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, which is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health (grant no. CGW-126580) from the Institute of Gender and Health.
The opinions, results, and conclusions reported in this article are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences or the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is intended or should be inferred.
Publication of this article was supported by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Disclosures: none.