title: Do Performance-Based Wheelchair Propulsion Tests Detect Changes Among Manual Wheelchair Users With Spinal Cord Injury During Inpatient Rehabilitation in Quebec?
abstract: To quantify and compare the responsiveness and concurrent validity of 3 performance-based manual wheelchair propulsion tests among manual wheelchair users with subacute spinal cord injury (SCI) undergoing inpatient rehabilitation.
  
  
  
  Quasi-experimental repeated-measures design.
  
  
  
  Publicly funded comprehensive inpatient SCI rehabilitation program.
  
  
  
  Consenting adult manual wheelchair users with a subacute SCI admitted and discharged from inpatient rehabilitation (N=14).
  
  
  
  Participants performed 20-m propulsion at both self-selected natural and maximal speeds, the slalom, and the 6-minute propulsion tests at rehabilitation admission and discharge.
  
  
  
  Time required to complete the performance-based wheelchair propulsion tests. Standardized response means (SRMs) were computed for each performance test and Pearson correlation coefficients (r) were calculated to explore the associations between performance tests.
  
  
  
  The slalom (SRM=1.24), 20-m propulsion at maximum speed (SRM=.99), and 6-minute propulsion tests (SRM=.84) were the most responsive. The slalom and 20-m propulsion at maximum speed were strongly correlated at both admission (r=.93) and discharge (r=.92).
  
  
  
  The slalom and 6-minute propulsion tests best document wheelchair propulsion performance change over the course of inpatient rehabilitation. Adding the 20-m propulsion test performed at maximal speed provides a complementary description of performance change.
authors.affiliation: Pathokinesiology Laboratory, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; School of Rehabilitation, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: dany.gagnon.2@umontreal.ca.
authors.forename: Dany H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Gagnon
authors.affiliation: Pathokinesiology Laboratory, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.affiliation: Brain and Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network, Lyndhurst Center, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Physical Therapy and Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Molly C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Verrier
authors.affiliation: Pathokinesiology Laboratory, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; School of Rehabilitation, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Cyril
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duclos
authors.affiliation: Brain and Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network, Lyndhurst Center, Toronto, ON, Canada; Division of Physiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: B Cathy
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Craven
authors.affiliation: Pathokinesiology Laboratory, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal, Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; School of Rehabilitation, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nadeau
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000592:standards*; D011792:Quebec; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014910:Wheelchairs
keywords: Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injuries; Task performance and analysis; Treatment outcome; Wheelchairs