The effect of a cognitive dual-task on the control of wheelchair propulsion.

ABSTRACT: Movement analyses of wheelchair users are rarely integrated into clinical operations, although these are recommended to prevent pain and injury in the upper extremity. In addition, previous movement analyses in the laboratory do not include the possible influences of distractions that occur in everyday wheelchair use. We therefore transferred the dual-task method known from the motion analysis of walkers to the analysis of the propulsion behavior of wheelchair users and examined whether the changes resulting from the additional cognitive task also show up here. The 52 participants consisted of 38 manual wheelchair users (age = 43.8 ± 14.2 years; sex = 11/27 f/m) and 14 novices (age = 39.2 ±  15.4 years; sex = 8/6 f/m). The participants propelled their wheelchairs on a test stand and moveme

SUBMITTER: Salm L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11824953 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature