Comparison of User Experience With Wheelsoft Wheels Intalled on a Wheelchair Compared With Normal Wheels.

Fatigue Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assesment of Patient Experience Using a Wheelchair Equipped With Suspension Wheels

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02925910
• Other study ID #: 115-16emc
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 29, 2016
• Last updated: February 27, 2018
• Start date: February 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: February 10, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: February 2018
• Source: HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Two groups of randomised rehabilitation patients will try a softwheels wheelchair and a regular one. One group will start with the softwheelsl and then change to the regular, and the other will start with the regular and then change to the softwheel.

Description:

The patients who are received to the rehabilitation ward and are confined to the use of a wheelchair are randomized to two groups. The first are given a wheelchair with wheelsoft wheels and the second group with regular wheels. The wheels of the chair are all covered to look similar to regular wheels (the regular wheels are also covered). All the patients will be taken once a day to a 10 minute trip with the wheelchair. After two days a questionnaire regarding their experience with the chair will be passed. On the third day the groups will change their wheels to the other kind. And again taken to daily trips and a final questionnaire on day four. We will collect additional data from the patients: age, sex, medical record, weight, height, ethnic background, marital status, working status.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: February 10, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: February 10, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• wheelchair bound for at least 4 days

Exclusion Criteria:

• not able to answer verbal questions

• over 95 kg of weight (wheel limit)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Fatigue
• Personal Satisfaction

Intervention

Device:
• Shock absorbing wheelchair
2 randomised groups will try the softwheel wheelchair compare to regular one, but in different order.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	haemek MC	Afula

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Satisfaction - first round	Overall satisfaction from wheelchair (regarding pain, comfort, tiredness, muscle crumps, feeling of safety) will be measured by questionairre after the first round	2 days
Secondary	Satisfaction - Second round	Overall satisfaction from wheelchair (regarding pain, comfort, tiredness, muscle crumps, feeling of safety) will be measured by questionairre after the second round	2 days