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Filter by:Wheelchair skills training is an important step in the wheelchair provision process. Caregivers play an important role in the lives of wheelchair users but very little is known about wheelchair skills training for caregivers. The goal of the study is to understand the effect of wheelchair travel direction, wheelchair occupant body position and technique used by caregivers on the ease of getting an occupied wheelchair over a soft surface.
This study will determine whether a power assist accessory for manual wheelchairs increases participation in community activities. This study will determine whether the power assist device (SmartDrive) is effective by increase participating in both winter and summer conditions.
This study evaluates the effect of seat height on hemiplegic-pattern wheelchair propulsion. Each subject will act as their own control and measures will be obtained in a one sixty minute session. Five seat heights relative to the subject's leg length will be measured in a random order to see the effect on forward and backwards wheelchair propulsion.
Stemming from the common practice of attribution of the technical helps in the posture in Canada, the multidisciplinary approach of positioning develops in France for more than 10 years old. To date, no observatory study was led to estimate the impact of such consultation in daily activities, an essential objective conditioning the observance and the acceptance of assistive devices. This study wants to estimate the impact through modification of WHOM scale.
A positive ergogenic effect of sodium citrate and caffeine ingestion in a short-term, high-intensity exercise task was shown by several studies. These studies were conducted with healthy, able-bodied subjects. The aim of the study is to investigate whether caffeine or sodium citrate ingestion could enhance performance in spinal cord injured wheelchair athletes. It is a double blind, placebo controlled and randomized study.