Physical Performance Measures for Manual Wheelchair Users

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injury

Treatments: Procedure: Performance Measure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00011544

B1751R

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project is intended to modify the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) for manual wheelchair users. It will determine if the new measure is a better measure of community independence for manual wheelchair users than the FIM. During the Phase 1 of the study it will then use this new measure to determine whether a home exercise program increases functional independence in wheelchair users. In Phases II and III of the study 120 manual wheelchair users will participate to test and validate the new measure and to test the effectiveness of therapeutic exercise. Subjects will range in age from 20 to 79 yrs. and have a variety of disabilities.

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 79 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Wheelchair users