Satisfaction and perceptions of long-term manual wheelchair users with a spinal cord injury upon completion of a locomotor training program with an overground robotic exoskeleton
Manuscript
Gagnon, D. H., Vermette, M., Duclos, C., Aubertin-Leheudre, M., Ahmed, S., & Kairy, D. (2019). Satisfaction and perceptions of long-term manual wheelchair users with a spinal cord injury upon completion of a locomotor training program with an overground robotic exoskeleton. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 14(2), 138-145.
Implications for Rehabilitation
All long-term manual wheelchair users with a spinal cord injury who participated in the study are unanimously satisfied upon completion of a 6–8-week locomotor training program with the robotic exoskeleton and would recommend the program to their peers.
All long-term manual wheelchair users with a spinal cord injury who participated in the study offered positive feedback about the robotic exoskeleton itself and feel it is easy to learn to perform sit–stand transfers and walk with the robotic exoskeleton.