OBJECTIVE To characterize the trend of wheelchair related injuries over time, and describe the demographics and characteristics of wheelchair users' injuries by age group. METHODS Data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) were analyzed. RESULTS In 2003, more than 100,000 wheelchair related injuries were treated in emergency departments in the US, double the number...

The development of intelligent wheelchairs is a very good solution to assist severely handicapped people who are unable to operate classical electrical wheelchair by themselves in their daily activities. This paper describes the integration of a robotic simulator with our intelligent wheelchair shared control and planning modules. An adapted version of the free Cyber-Mouse robotic simulator was...

This paper describes to develop an intelligent wheelchair which is useful to physically disabled people with introducing control and navigational intelligence. Some people with severely handicapped people that affect hand movements, motor is not possible to drive a common electric wheelchair. In Powered wheelchair is not able to drive correctly with the joystick. It proposed the design of Intel...

OBJECTIVE To examine changes in seat-interface pressure with multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Multiple Sclerosis Society's Resource Centre and community. PARTICIPANTS Convenience sample of 15 MS wheelchair users and 12 MS non-wheelchair users. INTERVENTION Interface pressure was measured for 8 minutes using the Force Sensing Array pressure mapping system. ...

The number of wheelchair tennis players is rising internationally, yet from a scientific perspective little known about performance. Wheelchair more complex compared to other court sports, due the wheelchair/racket interaction. purpose this narrative review was gain insight into influence configuration, i.e., individual set-up wheelchair, on performance, specifically mobility performance and pr...

We hypothesized that the effects of immediate video feedback (IVF) on training ramp, wheelie, and curb wheelchair skills for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) would be equivalent to or better than the traditional wheelchair skill training. Participants were manual wheelchair users with recent SCI (thoracic 1-lumbar 1) who were matched (9 pairs) on motor function level, age, and sex and rand...

CONTEXT Wheelchair tennis has been identified as a high-risk sport for shoulder injury, so understanding shoulder pathology in these athletes is important. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the incidence and pattern of shoulder injuries in wheelchair tennis players using high-resolution ultrasonography. DESIGN Descriptive study. SETTING International Wheelchair Tennis Open. PARTICIPANTS...

Objectives: To study changes in wheelchair skills in subects with spinal cord injury (SCI) during rehabilitation; to etermine whether changes in wheelchair skill performance are elated to the subject, lesion characteristics, secondary compliations, and upper extremity pain; and to investigate if wheelhair skill performance at discharge can be predicted from hese features. Design: Longitudinal. ...

Background. This study aimed to describe how people move about in manual wheelchairs (MWCs) during everyday life by evaluating bouts of mobility or continuous periods of movement. Methods. A convenience sample of 28 MWC users was recruited. Participants' everyday mobility was measured using a wheel-mounted accelerometer and seat occupancy switch for 1-2 weeks. Bouts of mobility were recorded an...

− We developed a protocol for the assessment of manual wheelchair set-up and propulsion in a common clinical motion analysis laboratory. We also designed a device to detect hand contact on handrim. In a first phase, we took anthropometric and wheelchair geometric measures. Later, subjects propelled the wheelchair and, based on the experimental data on subjects’ movements and their effect on whe...