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Steering-by-leaning facilitates intuitive movement control and improved efficiency in manual wheelchairs

BACKGROUND: Manual wheelchair propulsion is widely accepted to be biomechanically inefficient, with a high prevalence of shoulder pain and injuries among users. Directional control during wheelchair movement is a major, yet largely overlooked source of energy loss: changing direction or maintaining...

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Autores principales: Togni, Reto, Zemp, Roland, Kirch, Pleuni, Plüss, Stefan, Vegter, Riemer J. K., Taylor, William R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37884944
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-023-01265-x