Characterizing the city usage of an ultralight wheelchair with “on the fly” adjustable seating functions: A pilot research
Affiliation MAKE+, British Columbia Institute of Tech, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Affiliations Department of Occupational Science & Occupational treatment, UBC Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Overseas Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Canada analysis seat in Rehabilitation Engineering Design, British Columbia Institute of tech, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Biomedical Engineering Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Affiliations Department of Occupational Science & Occupational treatment, UBC Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Global Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, GF intense Rehabilitation analysis Lab, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Abstract
An ultralight manual wheelchair that enables users to individually adjust back chair height and backrest angle during normal every day use ended up being recently commercialized. Prior research has been done on wheelchair tilt, recline, and chair level used in the city, nevertheless no research that is such been done with this brand new course of manual ultralight wheelchair with “on the fly” changes. The goal of this pilot research would be to investigate and characterize making use of the 2 adjustable sitting functions available in the Elevation ™ ultralight dynamic wheelchair during its used in the city.