Do Performance-Based Wheelchair Propulsion Tests Detect Changes Among Manual Wheelchair Users With Spinal Cord Injury During Inpatient Rehabilitation in Quebec?
| Autor: | Molly C. Verrier, B. Cathy Craven, Sylvie Nadeau, Audrey Roy, Cyril Duclos, Dany H. Gagnon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male 030506 rehabilitation medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Concurrent validity Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Propulsion Wheelchair propulsion Manual wheelchair 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation Electric Power Supplies medicine Humans Spinal cord injury Physical Therapy Modalities Spinal Cord Injuries Rehabilitation business.industry Outcome measures Quebec Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged medicine.disease Wheelchairs Physical therapy Female 0305 other medical science business human activities 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Inpatient rehabilitation |
| Zdroj: | Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 97(7) |
| ISSN: | 1532-821X |
| Popis: | Objective To quantify and compare the responsiveness and concurrent validity of 3 performance-based manual wheelchair propulsion tests among manual wheelchair users with subacute spinal cord injury (SCI) undergoing inpatient rehabilitation. Design Quasi-experimental repeated-measures design. Setting Publicly funded comprehensive inpatient SCI rehabilitation program. Participants Consenting adult manual wheelchair users with a subacute SCI admitted and discharged from inpatient rehabilitation (N=14). Intervention Participants performed 20-m propulsion at both self-selected natural and maximal speeds, the slalom, and the 6-minute propulsion tests at rehabilitation admission and discharge. Main Outcome Measures Time required to complete the performance-based wheelchair propulsion tests. Standardized response means (SRMs) were computed for each performance test and Pearson correlation coefficients ( r ) were calculated to explore the associations between performance tests. Results The slalom (SRM=1.24), 20-m propulsion at maximum speed (SRM=.99), and 6-minute propulsion tests (SRM=.84) were the most responsive. The slalom and 20-m propulsion at maximum speed were strongly correlated at both admission ( r =.93) and discharge ( r =.92). Conclusions The slalom and 6-minute propulsion tests best document wheelchair propulsion performance change over the course of inpatient rehabilitation. Adding the 20-m propulsion test performed at maximal speed provides a complementary description of performance change. |
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