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POWER WHEELCHAIR MOBILITY STUDY
This project aims to find out how older adults adapt to their power wheelchairs over a two-year period and how these devices affect important aspects of their lives.
You can participate in this study if you:
use or are in the process of obtaining a power wheelchair;
are 50 years old or older;
live in the [...]
The Human Locomotion Research Lab at the School of Human Kinetics (UBC) recently completed a manual wheelchair movement study.
Background and purpose of research:
This study focused on achieving better understanding the neural control of wheeling; in particular, how the nervous system adapts to experience using a manual wheelchair.
Dr. Bonita Sawatzky of the Department of Orthopedics, University of British Columbia is conducting a research study to measure the forces put on the wheel when wheeling, to describe the wheeling strategies of adults, and measure how these forces change over various surfaces such as carpet, tile, and inclines/ramps.
You are being invited to participate if [...]
