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We hypothesized that the effects of immediate video feedback (IVF) on training
ramp, wheelie, and curb wheelchair skills for persons with spinal cord injury
(SCI) would be equivalent to or better than the traditional wheelchair skill
training. Participants were manual wheelchair users with recent SCI (thoracic
1-lumbar 1) who were matched (9 pairs) on motor function level, age, and sex and
randomly assigned to a control group (conventional training) or an experimental
group (IVF training). Participants learned three wheelchair skills and then went
through the wheelchair skill competency test, retention test, and transfer test.
Paired t-tests were used to examine the differences in training time (minutes),
spotter intervention needed (counts), and successful rate in performance between
the two groups. A 2 (groups) x 3 (skills) x 3 (tests) repeated-measures analysis
of variance and Bonferroni adjustment test were used to examine differences
between groups on wheelchair skills and tests. No differences were found between
two groups in training times (minutes) on three wheelchair skills (experimental
vs control: ramp 14.92 +/- 5.80 vs 11.69 +/- 7.85; wheelie 17.79 +/- 6.03 vs
19.92 +/- 13.42; and curb 38.35 +/-23.01 vs 48.59 +/- 15.21). This study
demonstrated that IVF for training manual wheelchair skills may produce similar
results as the conventional training and may be an alternative training method
for wheelchair skills.

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