Evaluation of anti-rollback systems in manual wheelchairs: muscular activity and upper limb kinematics during propulsion

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 19061 - 15
• Main Authors: Wieczorek, Bartosz, Kukla, Mateusz, Warguła, Łukasz, Giedrowicz, Marcin, Rybarczyk, Dominik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 09.11.2022; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/166/985; 692/698/1671; Architectural Accessibility; Biomechanical Phenomena; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; multidisciplinary; Range of Motion, Articular - physiology; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Upper Extremity - physiology; Wheelchairs

Self-propelling a wheelchair up a hill requires intense muscular effort and introduces the risk of the wheelchair rolling down. The purpose of this paper was to assess the user's muscular activity during ramp climbing. Tests were carried out on a group of 10 subjects who had to propel a wheelch...