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

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Back Pain; Personal Satisfaction; Fatigue

Treatments: Device: Shock absorbing wheelchair

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02925910

115-16emc

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• wheelchair bound for at least 4 days

Exclusion criteria

• not able to answer verbal questions
• over 95 kg of weight (wheel limit)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

softwheels at second round

Other group

Description:

Begining with regular wheelchair for 2 days and then changing for shock absorbing wheelchair for 2 days

Treatment:

Device: Shock absorbing wheelchair

softwheels at first round

Other group

Description:

starting with Shock absorbing wheelchair for 2 days and then changing for regular wheelchair for 2 days

Treatment:

Device: Shock absorbing wheelchair