Design History and Advantages of a New Lever-Propelled Wheelchair Prototype

摘要

Wheelchair propulsion has been reported to be responsible for musculoskeletal pain in the upper extremities. Epidemiological studies have shown a high prevalence of shoulder complaints in paraplegic and quadriplegic spinal cord injured (SCI) people. It has been argued that the high incidence of shoulder complaints in SCI was the result of the weight-bearing or propulsion function of the upper extremity in those subjects.