Influence of Active Rehabilitation For Locomotion Efficiency in a Wheelchair at Males after Cervical Spine Cord Injury. A Pilot Study

Paweł Lizis

Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2014

Influence of Active Rehabilitation For Locomotion Efficiency in a Wheelchair at Males after Cervical Spine Cord Injury. A Pilot Study

Pawe Lizis

Abstract :

The aim’s to compare the efficiency of locomotion in a wheelchair (ELW) before and after 2–week Active Rehabilitation (AR) in men after cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI). ELW’s measured by Test Driving Techniques (TDT) on 0–2 scale. Evaluated − balance in a wheelchair; overcoming thresholds of low, medium, high; entrance to the ramp, exit ramp; driving on uneven surfaces on 0–2 scale. To measure the statistical significance of differences in ELW before and after AR we used a one–way analysis of variance ANOVA, the value of the function F Snedecor and adopted the level of significance p < 0.05. We found improvement in ELW after the AR (p < 0.05) in men with CSCI. AR is an important step in improving ELW patients after CSCI. Long–term studies are needed assessing the impact of AR on the ELW of the CSCI.