Clinical Trial: Comparison Between Objective Biomechanical Cost and Perceived Physical Demand in Manual Wheelchair Users During Propulsion Tasks

U.S., Oct. 28 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07897214) titled 'Comparison Between Objective Biomechanical Cost and Perceived Physical Demand in Manual Wheelchair Users During Propulsion Tasks' on Sept. 08.

Brief Summary: Wheelchair users must be able to move around freely and access public buildings and transport, but current accessibility standards (e.g. maximum 8% ramp slope) are based on limited scientific evidence about the real biomechanical and perceived difficulties encountered by manual wheelchair users in daily life.

Manual wheelchair propulsion is not purely a motor activity: it also involves cognitive and emotional demands (attention, trajectory planning, stress and frustration mana...