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Volume 89, Issue 10 , Pages 1958-1964 , October 2008

Evaluation of a Stair-Climbing Power Wheelchair in 25 People With Tetraplegia

Isabelle Laffont, MD, PhD
- Unité de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
- Centre d'Innovations Technologiques, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
- Reprint requests to Isabelle Laffont, MD, PhD, Unité de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, 104 Blvd Raymond Poincaré, Garches, 92380, France
Bruno Guillon, BSc(PT)
- AP-HP, Centre d'essai des fauteuils roulants, Fondation Garches,, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
Christophe Fermanian, MD
- Centre d'Innovations Technologiques, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
- Unité de Recherche Clinique Paris-Ouest, AP-HP, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne, France
Sophie Pouillot, BSc(OT)
- AP-HP, Centre d'essai des fauteuils roulants, Fondation Garches,, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
Alexia Even-Schneider, MD
- Unité de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
François Boyer, MD, PhD
- Unité de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
Maria Ruquet, CRA
- Centre d'Innovations Technologiques, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
Philippe Aegerter, MD, PhD
- Unité de Recherche Clinique Paris-Ouest, AP-HP, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne, France
Olivier Dizien, MD
- Unité de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
- Deceased.
Frédéric Lofaso, MD, PhD
- Centre d'Innovations Technologiques, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France

The TopChair power wheelchair.

The TopChair power wheelchair.
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Outdoor and indoor circuits. The solid lines indicate the path the participant has to follow, the dotted lines indicate handrails, and the black dots indicate cones the patient had to avoid hitting in

Outdoor and indoor circuits. The solid lines indicate the path the participant has to follow, the dotted lines indicate handrails, and the black dots indicate cones the patient had to avoid hitting in order to complete the circuit successfully. The hatched areas indicate slopes.
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Times needed to complete the (A) indoor and (B) outdoor circuits during the first and second rounds with the TopChair (solid gray bars) and the Storm3 (speckled bars). The box plot indicates mean valu

Times needed to complete the (A) indoor and (B) outdoor circuits during the first and second rounds with the TopChair (solid gray bars) and the Storm3 (speckled bars). The box plot indicates mean values, quartiles and 5th and 95th. Both the round and the device exerted significant effects during the indoor trial (ANOVA; round effect, P<.001; device effect, P<.05; interaction, P=.17) and the outdoor trial (ANOVA; round effect, P<.001; device effect, P<.05; interaction, P=.17).
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Scores on each item of the QUEST instrument with the TopChair (solid gray boxes) and Storm3 (speckled boxes). Boxplots showing the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles. *Significant difference

Scores on each item of the QUEST instrument with the TopChair (solid gray boxes) and Storm3 (speckled boxes). Boxplots showing the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles. *Significant differences between the TopChair and Storm3 (Wilcoxon, P=.05).
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No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(08)00439-5

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.03.008

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Volume 89, Issue 10 , Pages 1958-1964 , October 2008