NCT02925910

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

Assesment of Patient Experience Using a Wheelchair Equipped With Suspension Wheels

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: HaEmek Medical Center, Israel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Back Pain
• Personal Satisfaction
• Fatigue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Shock absorbing wheelchair	2 randomised groups will try the softwheel wheelchair compare to regular one, but in different order.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-01
• Primary completion: 2018-02-10
• Completion: 2018-02-10
• First posted: 2016-10-06
• Last updated: 2018-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel