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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Personal Satisfaction; Back Pain; Fatigue
• Interventions: Device: Shock absorbing wheelchair

• Registration Number: NCT02925910
• Lead Sponsor: HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Brief 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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-10-05
• Study First Posted: 2016-10-06
• Study Start: 2017-02-01
• Status Verified: 2018-02
• Primary Completion: 2018-02-10
• Study Completion: 2018-02-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-02-27
• Last Update Posted: 2018-02-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• wheelchair bound for at least 4 days

Exclusion Criteria

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
softwheels at first round	Shock absorbing wheelchair	starting with Shock absorbing wheelchair for 2 days and then changing for regular wheelchair for 2 days
softwheels at second round	Shock absorbing wheelchair	Begining with regular wheelchair for 2 days and then changing for shock absorbing wheelchair for 2 days

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Satisfaction - first round	2 days	Overall satisfaction from wheelchair (regarding pain, comfort, tiredness, muscle crumps, feeling of safety) will be measured by questionairre after the first round

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Satisfaction - Second round	2 days	Overall satisfaction from wheelchair (regarding pain, comfort, tiredness, muscle crumps, feeling of safety) will be measured by questionairre after the second round

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

haemek MC; 🇮🇱 Afula, Israel