Wheelchair safety: Effect of locking or grasping the rear wheels during a rear tip

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1266-1270

  Kirby, R Lee ^a,b   DiPersio, Mario ^a   MacLeod, Donald ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; SAFETY; VIDEORECORDING; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 0030465374     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(96)90191-4     Document Type: Article

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