Currently, rolling resistance and wheelchair stability during manual wheelchair propulsion
can be assessed from the loads applied on the front and rear wheels, which are determined
in a static condition. However, a user's actions on the wheelchair would change these loads
during locomotion, which should affect both the rolling resistance and wheelchair stability.
The goal of this study was to verify these assumptions and assess how much the rolling
resistance and wheelchair stability are affected by the user's actions during propulsion. For …