This document, approved by the Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) Board of Directors on April 23, 2008, describes typical clinical applications and provides evidence from the literature supporting the application of tilt, recline, and elevating legrests for wheelchairs.

This study surveyed a sample of 79 wheelchair users who had obtained powered wheelchairs from the National Health Service in an Italian Region in the period 2008-2013. The wheelchair prescriptions had been done on the basis of an assessment protocol agreed with the Local Health Authority. Follow-up interviews were carried out at the users' homes, in order to collect information about the wheelc...

The widespread use of power wheelchairs has greatly increased the requirements for accessibility of buildings and other architectural structures to handicapped persons. In addition, recent advances in microcomputer technology have made possible increasingly sophisticated power wheelchair interfaces, such as halo, puff and sip, and muscle control mechanisms, which can provide mobility for an eve...

Structural anthropometric measurements for males and females were determined for the wheelchair mobile adults. A photogrammetry methodology was used to obtain the measurements. The various subject demographics including age, level or type of dysfunction as well as the specified anthropometric dimensions of the wheelchair mobile subjects were identified. The data would be useful for the design o...

In this paper, robust RHC (Receding Horizon Control) method with adaptive DA converter for robotic wheelchair using EEG (Electroencephalogram) based BMI (Brain Machine Interface) is discussed. The method is developed to apply to the obstacle avoidance system of the robotic wheelchair. Some numerical examples are also included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Key–Words: R...

Spinal cord injury leads to a pronounced reduction of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic ability. Physical activity, up to and including high-performance sports, has obtained importance in the course of rehabilitation and the postclinical phase. Thirteen elite female wheelchair basketball players from the German National Basketball Team and 10 female sedentary spinal cord-injured persons ...

Eyes base Electric Wheel Chair Control: EBEWC is proposed. The proposed EBEWC is controlled by human eyes only. Therefore disabled person can control the EBEWC by themselves. Most of the computer input system with human eyes only consider in specific condition and does not work in a real time basis. Moreover, it is not robust against various user races, illumination conditions, EWC vibration, a...

OBJECTIVES To determine the driving characteristics of electric-powered wheelchair users during unrestricted community activities and to compare the activity levels among an active group and a group of regular users. DESIGN Multisite engineering evaluation of electric-powered wheelchair driving activity during unrestricted community mobility. SETTING Data were collected in the communities o...

As human beings age, their physical abilities degrade. The proportion of population using wheelchairs increases sharply with age [1]. As the number of the elderly increases, the population of wheelchair users is very significant and increasing dramatically. Thus, finding accessible wheelchair routes is an important problem. Wheelchair users would like to find a path quickly and know the estimat...

The aim of the project is to design a wheelchair tilt communicator system that could operate the wheelchair of the handicapped person with the help of tilt of head movements. This system could be used by physically disable persons who cannot move their hands or legs but make head and eye motions. This wheelchair could be operated in any direction using head tilt movements by the handicapped per...