The Relationship Between Wheelchair Mobility Patterns and Community Participation Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury
نویسندگان
چکیده
The Relationship Between Wheelchair Mobility Patterns and Community Participation Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Rory A. Cooper PhD a , Eliana Ferretti PhD b , Michelle Oyster MS c , Annmarie Kelleher MSOTR/LATP a & Rosemarie Cooper MPTATP a a Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA b Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA c Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
منابع مشابه
The effect of tele-rehabilitation on the participation of people with spinal cord injury: secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial
Introduction: Due to participation being the main goal of rehabilitation in people with spinal cord injury, the distribution of services via telerehabilitation will be useful for most of these people who are no access to rehabilitation centers due to environmental barriers. Therefore, the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of telerehabilitation focused on transfer training and w...
متن کاملEffects of Upper Limb Exercises on Physical Capacity and Heart Function in Quadriplegics
Objectives: Wheelchairs are the prime mobility aid of persons with spinal cord injuries. Manual wheelchair propulsion puts a lot of demand on the cardiopulmonary as well as the skeletal system. The main purpose of the study was to compare the effects of both arm ergometry training and progressive resistance exercise training of upper limbs on resting heart rate and distance covered during wheel...
متن کاملReview Paper: Wheelchair Design and Its Influence on Physical Activity and Quality of Life Among Disabled Individuals
Encouraging an active lifestyle is an essential part of successful rehabilitation programs, and the link between physical activity and quality of life (QOL) is well established among patients with mobility disorders. Biomechanical aspects of wheelchair design play an important role in physical activity and social participation of disabled individuals. This review focuses on key biomechanical fe...
متن کاملManual Wheelchair Skills Training for Community-Dwelling Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVES To test the hypotheses that community-dwelling veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) who receive the Wheelchair Skills Training Program (WSTP) in their own environments significantly improve their manual wheelchair-skills capacity, retain those improvements at one year and improve participation in comparison with an Educational Control (EC) group. METHODS We carried out a randomiz...
متن کاملEffect of rear suspension and speed on seat forces and head accelerations experienced by manual wheelchair riders with spinal cord injury.
Whole-body shocks and vibrations experienced during manual wheelchair use can decrease an individual's comfort, increase the rate of fatigue, result in injury, and consequently limit mobility and community participation. We used a wheelchair-vibration simulator to examine whether the seat reaction forces experienced by wheelchair users were differentially influenced by wheelchair suspension, tr...
متن کامل