The weight relieving walker-scooter (WRWS or Robi-Roller): a new walking aid for outdoor life.
Patients suffering from the restriction of their locomotor function due to disease of the weight-bearing joints or ischaemic intermittent claudication, but who are otherwise relatively healthy, are enabled to achieve a remarkable improvement in the quality of their lives by the use of a new weight-relieving walker-scooter. The device is described. Simple experiments using the walker-scooter are recorded. The importance of ambulation is stressed, and the place of various walking aids is discussed.
D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009983:Orthopedic Equipment; D010146:Pain; D014853:Walkers