Del Valle-Benitez JA, Gayol-Mérida DA, Ramírez-Solano RJ, Lara-López DM, Quiñones-Uriostegui I

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ABSTRACT

Pressure ulcers, are common complication for people with spinal cord injury. One strategy to prevent them is to recommend wheelchair cush-ions for distributing interface pressure, in order to recommend and fit wheelchair cushions it have to assess the interface pressure between the user and their cushions. However this assessment is carried out in statics conditions. Literature highlights, the importance of assessing the pressure in wheelchair cushions, when the user is performing activities of daily living, especially during wheelchair propulsion. In order to assess the performance of wheelchair cushion during wheelchair propulsion, it de-veloped software SAPD^©. This work shows SAPD^© usability assess-ment, the Heuristic Method was applied for three experts. The utility was tested assessing the dynamics interface pressure of five patients’ wheel-chair users. SAPD^© has good performance and is useful to assess dy-namics interface pressure, and it can use as tool for recommendation a wheelchair cushion.

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