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

NCT ID: NCT02925910

Last Updated: 2018-02-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 24 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2018-02-10

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.

Conditions

Back Pain; Personal Satisfaction; Fatigue

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

softwheels at second round

Begining with regular wheelchair for 2 days and then changing for shock absorbing wheelchair for 2 days

Group Type: OTHER

Shock absorbing wheelchair

Intervention Type: DEVICE

2 randomised groups will try the softwheel wheelchair compare to regular one, but in different order.

softwheels at first round

starting with Shock absorbing wheelchair for 2 days and then changing for regular wheelchair for 2 days

Group Type: OTHER

Shock absorbing wheelchair

Intervention Type: DEVICE

2 randomised groups will try the softwheel wheelchair compare to regular one, but in different order.

Interventions

Shock absorbing wheelchair

2 randomised groups will try the softwheel wheelchair compare to regular one, but in different order.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Other Intervention Names

Softwheel wheelchair

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• wheelchair bound for at least 4 days

Exclusion Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

uriel giwnewer, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

haemek medical center

Locations

haemek MC

Afula, , Israel

Countries

Israel

Other Identifiers

115-16emc

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id